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TIL that thousands of Graffiti inscriptions, with the earliest dating back to 1605 by the first Spanish Governor of New Mexico, have been carved into the El Morro National Monument in New Mexico.

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M7Vwa TIL The "Gates of Hell" crater pit has been burning for over 50 years despite attempts to extinguish the flames
wokQJ TIL of Adrian Carton de Wiart who survived being shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear, lost his left eye, survived two plane crashes, tunnelled out of a prisoner-of-war camp, and tore off his own fingers when a doctor declined to amputate them.
Vyrk TIL Instead of donating money to the New York Food Bank, Toyota offered “kaizen”, a Japanese word meaning “continuous improvement”. Toyota sent its engineers to the soup kitchen and reduced wait time from 90 to 18 minutes.
4koMo TIL that German U boats sunk almost 400 American ships off the coast of North Carolina during WW2, causing over 5000 deaths
b9Yp4 TIL that Dr. Anthony Atala out of Boston Children's Hospital successfully 3D bio-printed a bladder for a cancer patient and it is continually to function after over a decade.