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TIL Professor Geoff Raisman spent 60 years of his life trying to find a cure for paralysis. He was fired twice but 9 months ago he helped paralysed Darek Fidyka walk again and believes his team’s work, and this breakthrough, will help many paralyzed people walk again in the near future.

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78Mex TIL If Lon Chaney had not died suddenly, he would have played the lead role in Tod Browning's Dracula (1931) instead of Bela Lugosi.
wLyGM TIL about Second Lieutenant Vladimir Kotlinsky of the Russian Imperial Army, who led a charge against the Germans after an attack with chlorine gas on WWI, while his and his men bodies were dissolving because of the chemicals action on their flesh
wLQ0o TIL that Eli Black, then-CEO of the successor of United Fruit killed himself by jumping onto the tracks of Grand Central Station when his illicit bribes to the Honduran government were discovered. His son is now one of the most successful hedge fund managers in the world.
R7yB4 TIL Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart co-authored a cookbook called,"From Crook to Cook: Platinum Recipes from Tha Boss Dogg's Kitchen". According to Snoop Dogg, his signature dish is sushi, as he has much experience with the skills needed to properly roll sushi and make them appetising.
PYxbZ TIL A 170-person Swiss infantry unit once got lost during training exercises and inadvertently crossed 1.5km into Liechtenstein. The Swiss army later informed Liechtenstein of the incursion and offered official apologies, to which a ministry spokesperson responded, "No problem, these things happen."