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TIL that Tsutomo Yamaguchi (the man who survived both atom bombs) traveled 180 miles home to return to work despite his intense injuries from the first bomb. When he arrived at work his boss didn’t believe that one bomb destroyed all of Hiroshima. Then the second bomb dropped on Nagasaki.

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M7KD0 TIL about psychologist George M. Stratton who invented the upside down goggles and used it to prove that human brain can adapt to the inverted vision. He wore them for 7 days and felt weird until the last day that he adapted until he took them off and felt strange again for several hours.
VPKm TIL a Japanese Oil Tanker captain fell into a cactus at a Santa Barbra Oil Field, provoking laughter from the local workers. 5 years later he returned in an Imperial Japanese Navy sub and made the first mainland shelling of the US at that oil field.
PYJYn TIL Dr. Phil is NO longer licensed to practice psychology in the US. He had ethics charges for an inappropriate relationship with a patient (1989), a criminal complaint for practicing psychology without a license (California), and violated doctor-patient confidentiality with Britney Spears (2008).
QJRn6 TIL The Office had been originally written for British television in 2003 until the creator Ricky Gervais moved it to the US in 2005 and became the executive producer. Some of the writing is almost identical between the two shows like the stapler in jello scene.
9jAX TIL that while projections show Islam and Christianity having population booms into 2050, atheism is expected to dwindle as time goes on. The main reason is atheists have extremely low fertility rates in comparison to Christians and Muslims.