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TIL you’re nearly 300 times more likely to be a victim of homicide in new Orleans as you are in Hong Kong.

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ppJG TIL a civil war veteran lived to see thermonuclear weapons and I Love Lucy
W7XKY TIL Formula 1 race car driver Alex Zanardi cheated death 3 times. In 2001 he was in a horrific crash and lost both legs. In 2020 he had a massive head injury and was in a medically induced coma. Finally, he had severe smoke inhalation from a house fire in 2022.
JYYv4 TIL of an unnamed Chinese man who was constipated for 22 years and looked 9 months pregnant. Surgeons removed 13kg/29lbs of poop from his abdomen. He suffered from a rare congenital disease known as Hirschsprung, which causes constipation due to missing nerves inside the colon.
QN4b6 TIL the US government tested an air-to-air nuclear weapon and put 5 completely unprotected men directly below it on the ground to show how safe it was.
yev TIL: The original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were really violent and gory comic books.