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TIL at least 58 people have been killed by violent responses to Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses.

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xVp6b TIL Phineas Gage, (1823–1860) an American railroad construction foreman remembered for his improbable survival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brain's left frontal lobe.
epVVn TIL the Calusa built fish holding pens 7x larger than an NBA basketball court in what is now Florida, requiring understanding of daily and seasonal tides, hydrology and fish biology in 1300 CE to cope with sea level changes
YpjBG TIL Master of Puppets was the first metal album to be preserved by the US Library of Congress
WkEE8 TIL of the Bethke brothers. Each escaped from Soviet East Berlin. Ingo floated on a mattress across a river. Holger used a bow to fire a cable across the gap, then zip-lined to safety. Then Ingo and Holger built an aircraft and flew back over the wall to rescue their third brother, Egbert.
dDvMj TIL that Spanish moss is not a moss; it’s more closely related to grasses than to mosses. It’s also not Spanish; it’s native to the southern US, Central America, and South America.