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TIL Rodney Mullen only lost one out of 35 competitions in his career as a pro skater.

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LGDd TIL a Canadian inventor tried to create a “supergun” which could fire satellites into orbit from a 512 foot-long barrel embedded inside a hill. When Western funding failed, he turned to military application of his ideas for Saddam Hussein, but then he was assassinated in Brussels.
8Y0X TIL of Ikigai, the Japanese philosophy that everyone has “a reason for being”. It indicates the source of value in one’s life or the things that make a life worthwhile.
MeKO0 TIL The longest anyone's been in a coma is 37 years and 111 days. A six year old girl was in hospital for a routine appendectomy, she went under general anaesthetic and never woke up. She was in a coma from August 6th 1941 to 1978.
dD9R8 TIL there is an extremely rare condition, 'demon face syndrome,' in which people to see faces as distorted, horrific, drooped, or stretched. “It’s like staring at demons. Imagine waking up one morning and suddenly everybody in the world looks like a creature in a horror movie.”
VBQ08 TIL during World War 2, Pittsburgh produced more steel and iron than all Axis powers—combined.