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TIL that a Mentally Ill man shot himself in the head as a suicide attempt. The bullet cured his disorder and he became a Straight-A college student.

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e0mLE TIL that the Code of Hammurabi, while notorious for its eye for an eye punishments and the removal of body parts of the guilty party, was also one of the earliest pieces of written law to have it a requirement for an innocent person to be assumed innocent until proven guilty
PYXaJ TIL that Cleatus, fox sports robotic football mascot, original concept art was drawn by then Executive VP Gary Hartley’s son, who at the time was 7
MDRW TIL that if the entire world’s population stood side by side in a giant square, with each person having 1 square meter of space to stand in, that (not so giant) square would only be 80km (50 miles) in length in each direction, and a Bugatti Veyron could drive around it in 50 minutes.
dDp9E TIL that polar bears are also ranged hunters and will throw rocks and chunks of ice at walruses to stun or even kill them outright
e0QA6 TIL that Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Jack Anderson was targeted by the Nixon administration for assassination in 1972. The plot was foiled when the assassination plotters, G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt, were arrested for the Watergate break-in.