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TIL about Julia Popova, who was stabbed by a mugger as she walked home from work one in 2010 - but she was so traumatised by the attack that she walked home without realising the knife was embedded in her, just a fraction of an inch from her spinal cord.

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ADLAl High-speed video imaging colored to reveal the two main components of a sneeze show a shower of larger droplets, green, whose trajectories can extend up to two meters from the person sneezing, yellow, and a cloud, red, made of a mixture of smaller droplets suspended in moist, warm gas. Pathogen-bearing droplets can be suspended in the air for not just seconds, but minutes, and can travel up to 27 feet.
0jWN TIL US Army Chaplain Charles Liteky is the only Medal of Honor recipient to have given his award back to the Government, he also left the priesthood, married a nun, and became a fervent social justice activist.
64aW TIL an accountant from Canada created a full-length role-playing game using an Excel workbook.
LpgZ TIL: An ancient planet in our solar system had its outer crust blasted away by asteroid impacts. All that remained was a solid metal core which still orbits the sun today. Scientists now propose sending a probe to this “metal world” to learn more about how our own planet formed.
4XAda TIL the Mediterranean had dried up and been refilled by Atlantic for at least 69 times due to the total close up and re-open of the Strait of Gibraltar. at its prime time, the Atlantic-Gibraltar waterfall was 1000 times bigger than Niagara.