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TIL Daniel Inouye was an American soldier in WWII who got shot in the stomach while engaging 3 machine gun nests, then had his right hand blown off from a rifle grenade, and finally proceeded to pry out the grenade from his amputated hand and throw it in the nest.

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l7YD7 TIL Daniel Stern famed Home Alone baddie is also an accomplished sculptor.
E7jX TIL Komodo dragons are actually venomous rather than, as long thought, poisoning their victims with the bacteria in their saliva. Turns out, according to one researcher, “that whole bacteria stuff has been a scientific fairy tale”. The venom works slowly and makes the victim too weak to fight.
8aKab TIL about Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Joseph Stalin who defected to the U.S. in 1967.
p8vO TIL that the Sundance Film Festival takes place at the Sundance Resort, which is named after the Sundance Kid, who did time in Sundance Jail in the town of Sundance, Wyoming, which took its name from the Sundance practiced by certain Indian tribes.
XV1r TIL the first episode of an X-Files spin-off called “The Lone Gunmen”, which aired March 4, 2001, involves a US government conspiracy to hijack an airliner, fly it into the World Trade Center, and blame it on terrorists - thereby gaining support for a new profit-making war