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TIL there are still 10 people that are living in iron lungs

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gr5jA TIL there was a famous Japanese game show in which diehard baseball fan contestants were locked individually in small rooms for an entire baseball season: if their favorite team won each night they got dinner for the evening, if their team lost the lights would be turned out until the next win.
R9Nw TIL a town in Tennessee hanged an elephant for murder in 1916.
aw1oN TIL that John Rhys-Davies (also Gimli in Lord of the Rings) is the original voice actor for Man Ray in early seasons of Spongebob Squarepants
VBKXp TIL that Markus Persson, the billionaire creator of Minecraft, never finished high school
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