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TIL Falling while waterskiing can cause a flood of water to enter the anus or vagina causing an injury called "water skier's douche"

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69P7Z TIL in 2005 Tyler Greese, was diagnosed with a rare liver cancer where only 200 known cases in the entire US. insider.com Make a wish foundation granted him a wish of creating his own Yu- Gi-Oh card known as Tvler the Great Warrior
awKrN TIL that in 1997, a 50-pound pumpkin was speared atop a tower at Cornell University, 173 feet in the air. It stayed in place for months. Alumni are still trying to figure out who did it without being noticed -- and how.
j657a TIL during WWII, the Allies planned a secret operation called “Operation Vegetarian” to drop infected cow cakes over German fields, aiming to spread anthrax among German livestock and disrupt food supplies.
DQ1WJ TIL In 1962 the French Defense Minister and Minister of Scientific Research were accidentally exposed to nuclear fallout. A subteranean nuclear bomb test in Béryl failed and the minister of defence described it as, 'a kind of gigantic blowtorch flame that started exactly horizontal in our direction'
8ajya TIL that, on the same day that James Van Allen announced his discovery of the radiation belts that now bear his name, the US military contacted him to inquire about firing nukes into them.