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TIL that World War II veteran Don Karkos had the sight in one of his eyes miraculously restored when a racehorse accidentally hit him in that eye and dislodged the shrapnel that had caused his blindness.

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N7n18 TIL Himalayan cliff bees in Nepal produce hallucinogenic honey know as "Mad Honey" and it's effects are comparable to magic mushrooms and LSD.
wlWM TIL in 1992 an Israeli cargo plane crashed in Amsterdam killing 43 people. Israel claimed it was carrying flowers and perfume. It took 6yrs and a Dutch parliamentary inquiry before they admitted it was carrying DMMP, a key component for sarin nerve gas.
KOGW6 TIL Costco purposefully designed their store without signs to force people to wander through all the aisles and find things to buy.
A1Od TIL that Tuvalu could finally afford the $100,000 it cost to join the United Nations after it received its first quarterly $1 million payment for leasing out the valuable .tv internet domain.
oB478 TIL in 2004 French police discovered an underground cinema that had been built in secret beneath the Paris catacombs. When they returned to it three days later, they found a note reading “Do not try to find us”.