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TIL the longest coma ever recorded is 37 years and 111 days.

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Z8oo4 TIL Optimus Prime is not a Jew (supported by verifiable source material).
XEBKr TIL: When Schapelle Corby was returning home to Australia from Indonesia after serving almost a decade for drug trafficking, about 40 journalists booked a flight, expecting Corby to be on it. But she took another airline, instead.
j61lN TIL in WW 2, an allied oil tanker & corvette were attacked by 2 Japanese commerce raiders in the Indian Ocean. The Japanese had over 8 to 1 gun edge + torpedoes. The tanker took 2 torpedo hits and many shell hits. Surprisingly, 1 Japanese raider was sunk and the allied ships made it safely to port.
OGxba TIL about Anatoly Moskvin, a Russian historian who was discovered to have dug up the bodies of 26 girls and mummified them in his home, dressing them up as dolls and keeping them for years without anyone knowing.
woG8P TIL - The British Proposed a Chicken-Heated Nuclear Bomb