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TIL Judith Love Cohen, who helped create the Abort-Guidance System which rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts, went to work on the day she was in labor. She took a printout of a problem she was working on to the hospital. She called her boss and said she finished the problem and gave birth to Jack Black

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nex0B TIL a man endured 440 days drifting across the Pacific Ocean until he was found in the Marshall Islands in 2013, emaciated and wearing only his underpants, having swum ashore.
6EJgZ TIL: Late wrestler Bam Bam Bigelow once saved three children from a burning house and 40% of his skin was left with second degree burns forcing him to retire and hospitalized for two months. Bam Bam said he had "no regrets" of his act of courage, as long as all three kids were safe.
Wk0ed TIL the non-canonical "infancy gospel of Thomas" describes Jesu's childhood life. According this,Jesus cursed a boy and caused his death at the age of one,killed another kid just for bumping into him and blinded his neighbours for complaining to his parents
neOkB TIL during the Great Depression Clifton’s Cafeteria eateries boasted the slogan “Dine free unless delighted.” In the original restaurant’s first three months of business, ten thousand customers took him up on the offer. Enough customers paid their bills to make them a success.
GAyBG TIL the Vinland Map, once believed to be a pre-Columbian map proving Vikings knew of North America before Columbus, was confirmed as a 20th-century forgery through advanced ink analysis and dating techniques.