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TIL that you shouldn't remove someone's helmet after a motorcycle crash unless under specific circumstances

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Ma18 TIL when F. Scott Fitzgerald died, he thought he was a failure, and his work forever forgotten. His novel, The Great Gatsby, was reviewed poorly and had only sold 20,000 copies. It’s now considered the greatest novel in American history, and sells over 500,000 copies per year.
epVbn TIL about Bishnoi community in India who lay their lives in 1730 trying to save trees which were to be cut down at the orders of a local king.
9YemM TIL that after approximately 3,195 hours, a set of fish beat three Pokémon games, by swimming around in a tank with motion tracking. The fish tanks were mapped with directional arrows as well as the A and B buttons, and as the fish swam into a button’s mapped area, it activated the buttons in-game
p8PJe TIL one of Canada's most dynastic families are the Irving's. They are considered to be the most influential, owning somewhere between 200 and 300 corporations and being the fifth-largest private landholders in the United States.
ypQJ TIL Charles Redheffer was an American inventor who claimed to have invented a perpetual motion machine, He was later exposed when an engineer found a hidden cord that led to an upper floor. Upstairs he found an old man who was turning a hand-crank with one hand and eating bread with the other