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TIL; A Man Used A Lightsaber To Avoid Being Hit With A Stun Gun

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bWYE TIL Bobby Murcer promised to hit a home run for a terminally ill young fan before a game in 1977—and he hit two of them! The announcers went nuts. There was only one problem—that’s how the boy found out he was dying.
PMlJ TIL Jackie Chan speaks 7 languages.Cantonese,Mandarin,English,German,Korean,Japanese and Thai including American sign language.
DpwV TIL in 2002, a mid-air collision between a passenger jet and cargo jet took the lives of all 71 people aboard both planes. A man whose family was killed in the collision later stabbed to death the Air Traffic Controller that was on duty at the time of the collision.
95Ym TIL that plastic surgeons use decapitated cadaver heads to learn and refresh their surgical skills. Somewhere out there, there a person who beheads cadavers for a living.
YppKP TIL of the shortest war ever- the Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896. It lasted 38 minutes.