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TIL about Aki Ra. A man who has personally cleared 50,000 land mines by hand with minimal equipment.

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Ekew TIL we refer to money as ‘bucks’ because we used to trade with deerskin
R7pda TIL A new, low-cost wound dressing leverages energy generated from a patient's own body motions to apply gentle electrical pulses at the site of an injury. In rodent tests, the dressings reduced healing times to a mere three days compared to nearly two weeks for the normal healing process.
ADo1g TIL the Library of Congress has multiple crowdsourcing projects where anyone can help digitize historical documents. Active projects include transcribing letters and other writings from Rosa Parks, Susan B. Anthony, and Walt Whitman.
wooL8 TIL Women taking the contraceptive pill can skip periods indefinitely. If you choose to skip the placebo pills each month there is no requirement to take a ‘break’ from the active pills. Ever.
kJnRB TIL Roald Dahl (author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and many other children's books) also invented a cerebral shunt that has been used to treat thousands of children with brain injuries.