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TIL the ex-bassist of Nirvana and Soundgarden went on to become an Army Ranger and a Special Forces Green Beret.

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7rrBX TIL that the original author of Thomas the Tank Engine (The Railway Series) has created an extensive Island of Sodor book with the complete lore of Sodor, from the history of the railway to the island itself. The book is rare, and goes for $500 or more.
MNJW TIL “basket case” is used to describe helplessness rather than insanity, and originally described the most badly maimed WWI soldiers who had to be transported in baskets
1aJ0O TIL Three cleanup volunteers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant voluntarily suited up in scuba gear and swam into the radioactive water, knowing that they would die as a result, to open a gate valve allowing containmented water to drain out preventing a catastrophic thermal explosion.
loJDK TIL Ted Kaczynski (AKA "The Unabomber") was subjected to a "purposely brutalizing psychological experiment" for three years at Harvard, involving weekly verbal abuse and humiliation
BeBd TIL that Australia is the only continent outside of Antartica WITHOUT an established deer population.