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TIL 8,900 children in the USA receive amputations each year due to lawn mower accidents

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GAN4G TIL the sun takes 225m Earth years to make one full orbit around the centre of The Milky Way. This is called the galactic year.
BnWK TIL Blue food coloring has been shown to improve recovery from spinal cord injury when injected into the spine of rats.
OO6X TIL: the nazis intentionally flooded a region and introduced malaria carrying mosquitoes to stop the Allied advance. It didn’t kill any allied forced, but did kill 50k Italians.
JYWXB TIL Ginggaew Lorsoungnern, a Thai convict executed by firing squad, was discovered to have a rare condition called Situs Inversus (internal organs reversed) after she was shot in the left side of her chest and survived. After waking up in the morgue she was taken back and executed.
b6Bk0 TIL that 1.3 million Americans have a Top Secret security clearance