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TIL a handyman in Pennsylvania accidentally cut his hand off then fired twelve nails into his head with a nailgun in an effort to dull the pain. He survived.

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lvdB TIL the doctor who ran the famous gender identity study on identical twin boys where one was raised as a girl falsified his data for 30 years, and that the boy never actually accepted his female identity
KYgD6 TIL that a set of triplets found each other coincidentally after being separated at adoption for a pyschological experiment, when a college student mistook one of the triplets for his unknown brother. Once the two reunited, the unusual story made the paper catching the attention of the third brother
ZpJAR TIL When Jimmy Carter left the White House, his secretary had transcribed over 5,000 pages from his personal journal. Carter waited a long time to publish his diary since it contains his unguarded impressions. "White House Diary", released in 2010, contains a quarter of everything he wrote
0w0E1 TIL Rolex advertisements always photograph their watches at 10:10:31, and if the clock has a calendar, the date is always Monday 28th.
1arw7 TIL that there is a "letter of last resort" on every trident nuclear submarine in the Royal Navy. They are hand written by the PM and destroyed unread every time a new PM is elected. They contain orders for an event where Britain is destroyed, but nobody will know what they are until that time comes