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9YvEQ TIL a polar bear used to live at the Tower of London and go swimming in the Thames. It was a gift from King Haakon of Norway in 1252
BgENb TIL in the 1980s a man with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder shot himself in the head in an attempt to commit suicide - Instead of killing him, the bullet destroyed the part of his brain that was responsible for his OCD, and he went on to become a straight-A college student five years later
KYdNR TIL the creator of HBO's White Lotus was a contestant on both Survivor and The Amazing Race.
kOb5m TIL the 1964 baseball champion St. Louis Cardinals team photo had to be retaken because in the first attempt, one black player (HoF pitcher Bob Gibson) and one white player (famed broadcaster Bob Uecker) held hands with big goofy smiles.
wXnE TIL - One of the longest recorded sniper kill is nearly 1.75 miles and was shot by an Australian in Afghanistan last year.