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neler TIL Tom Petty wrote the song "I Wont Back Down" after an arsonist burned down his house and he escaped with just the clothes on his back.
W7JrB TIL 18 year old Milton Olive III saved the lives of 4 soldiers by grabbing a grenade that was thrown in their midst and falling on it to absorb the blast with his body. Posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, he was the first African American recipient from the Vietnam War.
DQOAj TIL that in 2013 scientists were able to genetically modify rabbits to glow in the dark using jellyfish DNA
X7Rk TIL that in 2011 after the Fukushima disaster the Russians offered a special barge designed to clean radioactive water, the Japanese turned them down and decided to go with water tanks
x6elw TIL that Bulgarian scientist Victor Ninov fraudulently claimed to have discovered two new chemical elements (116 and 118) while working at Berkley. Later investigations found he had also falsified evidence for elements 110,111, and 112, but escaped consequence as real elements were soon found.