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TIL Beetween N and 2N there is always a prime number
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TIL Author J K Rowling wrote the final chapter of the last Harry Potter book in ‘something like 1990’, seven years before the release of the first book.
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TIL a man who became paralysed after a motorcycle accident gave money raised for an operation that could allow him to be able to walk again to a young boy who suffered from Cerebral Palsy so the boy could take his first steps.
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TIL Francis J. Falejczyk was the first man to breathe oxygenated fluid through his lungs. Eventually after further testing, he presented the information to a crowd of people, one of which was James Cameron. Giving James the idea for the 1989 movie, The Abyss.
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TIL that Ozzy Osbourne and Lita Ford once encountered each other in the studio, drank heavily and inadvertently wrote a song together. It ended up being the highest charting US single of either of their careers.
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TIL that 3 years after illegally joining the Marines at the age of 14, Jacklyn Lucas snuck onto a ship bound for Iwo Jima, stormed the beach without a rifle, and threw himself on top of two grenades to protect his team. He survived, and earned the Medal of Honor at the age of 17.