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TIL Kent Waldrep was paralyzed during a NCAA football game between TCU v Alabama. TCU used “student athlete” defense to avoid paying Waldrep’s medical bills and cancel his scholarship.

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6MdX TIL there is a town in Kazakhstan called Kalachi, where the inhabitants of the village sometimes inexplicably all fall asleep for days
16n7r TIL about Jakob von Washington, a distant relative of George Washington, who was born in the Netherlands, fought against Napoleon, served as a Lieutenant General in the Bavarian Army and signed a treaty with the Duke of Wellington as a representative of Bavaria at Waterloo.
e0A0E TIL that the English chess term "checkmate" is derived from the Persian phrase "shah mat", which means "the king is dead".
QJm1e TIL of Magawa, an African giant pouched rat who helped clear landmines left over from the Cambodian civil war from over 225,000 square metres of land. He was capable of sniffing out the TNT in explosives, and could work much faster than humans since he was too light to detonate the mines.
ZEVD TIL of a woman who sat on her boyfriend’s toilet for 2 years. Paramedics had to remove the seat, which accommpanied her to hospital, from the toilet as her skin had grown around it. Her boyfriend brought food and water and asked her to come out of the bathroom daily. She would reply “maybe tomorrow”