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TIL after half his face was blown off by a gun accident a man underwent the most extensive face transplant in history.

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mxYQP TIL for the 200th episode of Inside the Actors Studio, James Lipton was, for once, in the other chair as the guest who was interviewed. They allowed Lipton to select his interviewer. His choice? Dave Chappelle
vwk7 TIL Anders Breivik, the Norwegian mass murder who killed 77 people in 2011, threatened to go on a hunger strike in prison last year if the government did not upgrade his PS2 to a PS3.
d8dw7 TIL the breakup of Yugoslavia was arguably accelerated by a Serbian man who was injured while pleasuring himself with a glass bottle. When questioned by doctors, he blamed his injury on an attack by "Albanian separatists" and became a cause celebre for Serbian ultranationalists.
oZa7 TIL that despite later becoming an icon of the south, the confederate flag was never the national flag of the Confederate States of America
GYm8N TIL that the Philippines' actual independence was also July 4, but in 1962 it was changed to June 12, likely to spite the US.