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TIL that two surgeons used a coat hanger, brandy, and a tube to operate on a collapsed lung during an airplane flight and succeeded

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e05NE TIL that Michael Jackson removed "Dirty Diana" from his concert setlist in London for Princess Diana to be respectful, but she asked for him to keep it in the setlist as it was one of her personal favorites.
7N9M TIL the first male sex symbol in Hollywood was a Japanese actor, Sessue Hayakawa. While a student at the University of Chicago, he played quarterback for the football team and was once penalized for using jujitsu to bring down an opponent.
NX5AP TIL that famed playwright Miguel Pinero whose play Short Eyes received six Tony nominations played the drug lord Calderon on Miami Vice
Wkk6o TIL President McKinley was reluctant to accept the security available to his office. His secretary feared an assassination attempt would take place during a visit to the Temple of Music (where McKinley was indeed assassinated) and took it off the schedule twice. McKinley restored it each time.
56nB TIL Princeton, an Ivy League university, doesn’t have a business, law, or medical school