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TIL scientists have created a microparticle filled with Oxygen that can be injected into the bloodstream, enabling users to stay alive without breathing.

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OoVWY TIL that attacking parachutists from an aircraft in distress is a war crime
oBrVr TIL in 2013, a photographer recorded seventeen seconds of footage of an elusive night parrot—a Lazarus species that hadn't been spotted in nearly a century. A bird expert called it "the bird-watching equivalent of finding Elvis flipping burgers in an outback roadhouse."
b9bw4 TIL: There are clear grand pianos. They're made of acrylic plastic. The Kawai CR-40 "Crystal Grand" is said to cost a quarter-million dollars according to one reviewer --though that's before haggling and discount codes. (At least the case and legs are clear; the interior workings aren't.)
l7GEB TIL Lemmy (Motörhead) appeared in a pornographic film starring John Wayne Bobbitt, whose penis was amputated by his wife, but surgically reattached. Ron Jeremy said Lemmy contributed the song "Under the Knife" to the film's soundtrack.
x6aLk TIL that some victims of the Hammond Circus Train Wreck 1918 were so badly burned, that they were wrongly thought to be African-American train porters.