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Gwj TIL there is a fish that has the dental characteristics of a human and has killed people by chewing their testicles off.
g0YL TIL 11 of the 12 men who walked on the moon were Boy Scouts
pbre TIL that in Dutch Harbor, Alaska there are helmets and hockey sticks left outside the post office so that customers can protect themselves from aggressive bald eagles.
WkN5d TIL about Zofia Rydet, a Polish photographer who, at age 67, decided to try to shoot the interior of every home in Poland. Over the final 19 years of her life, she shot 20,000 images. She said, "The simplest, most ordinary documentary picture becomes a great truth about human fate."
xl5D TIL in 1989, the forward cargo door of a 747 flying from Honolulu to Auckland blew off, causing decompression of the cabin and ejecting 9 passengers from the plane to their deaths over 22,000ft below. 2 flight attendants narrowly avoided being sucked out of the plane.