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TIL a man received the heart of a suicide victim, married his widow, and years later killed himself in the same way the donor did.

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vPKKR TIL in 2018, a woman driving a Honda Accord was in a crash where everyone but her survived. Because a faulty Takata airbag ruptured, she was struck by bursted metal pieces, causing a 15cm by 8cm gaping wound to her left temple, a fractured skull and bruising and bleeding on her brain
8494 TIL Jeff “Skunk” Baxter, founding guitarist of Steely Dan and longtime member of the Doobie Brothers, researched aviation systems as a hobby in the 1980s. Today, he is a defense consultant that chairs a congressional advisory board on missile defense.
Y7PBG TIL Darius Rucker (Hootie and the Blowfish frontman/country artist) released a solo R&B album in 2002.
xVPQw TIL The original lightsaber prop used in Star Wars by Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker is inside the International Space Station and was flown by STS-120 last August 2007
8aRML TIL of Nellie Bly, a 19th century female journalist who went around the world in 72 days, pretended to be insane in order to expose the deplorable conditions in mental asylums, patented two designs for steel cans and ran a million-dollar iron manufacturing business, all before the age of 40.