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TIL of August Natterer, who, on April Fool's Day 1907, had a pivotal hallucination of the Doomsday, during which "10,000 images flashed by in half an hour". He spent the rest of his life in a mental institution, where he became a prolific painter, attempting to capture his hallucination.

E1OMp TIL That Bob Beamon had a lifelong goal of being the first athlete to ever pass 28 feet in a long jump. After the official measurement coming out to 29 feet and 2.5 inches in the 1968 Olympics, he became so full of emotion that his muscles literally began to collapse.
R7bG6 TIL James Hong (Lopan from Big Trouble in Little China) served in the US Army during the Korean War, but he was so entertaining to the other troops in training camp that the camp general requested he stay at the camp to be in charge of live shows rather than deploy overseas.
XEDjr TIL there was a Russian TV Show in which the contestant had to steal a car and avoid the police for 35 minutes. If the contestant successfully avoided the police, he won the car.
awwO9 TIL that Sigmund Freud once described a victim of his friend's medical malpractice as having "wish-bleedings, caused by her hysterical longing for the affection of others." His friend Wilhelm Fliess had cut out the inner part of her nose, causing her death some years later.
QJg56 TIL that to many Icelanders, WW2 is actually known as blessað stríðið – “the blessed war" as the country has the war to thank for its independence.