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TIL a 14 year old boy in China was killed anally after the gas cylinder in the base of his office chair (the part that allowed the user to adjust the seat up and down) exploded and sent chunks of the metal seat up his rectum, causing him to bleed to death.

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6E4yl TIL that rolling stone gave Elton John's album 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road' a scathing review, despite years later including it as #91 on their list of top 500 albums of all time
VMO10 TIL that the National Orchestra of Wales used a "sound box" so deaf people can experience a concert. Through vibrations, it transmits music to people with their hands on it or even lying on top of it. One participant called it "something none of us would ever have thought that we would experience."
QNdKL TIL that on August 21, 1963, Aeroflot Flight 366 made an emergency water landing on the Neva River in Leningrad after both engines failed due to fuel exhaustion. The plane, which had been circling the city, narrowly missed bridges and all 52 people onboard survived.
XEwwj TIL of Walter Freeman, a man with no surgical training who popularized the transorbital lobotomy by driving around the US performing thousands of procedures on not just men but women and children too. Contrary to popular believe, there is no evidence that he referred to his van as the "Lobotomobile"
LRLv TIL that the word “boycott” comes from 1880, when the Irish Land League refused to do business with a rent collector named Charles Boycott.