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Today I Learned Volume 002

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W7kZY TIL The inventor and theorist Buckminster Fuller was expelled from Harvard twice. The first time for spending all his money partying with a vaudeville troupe and the second time for his "irresponsibility and lack of interest".
7r47P TIL a woman accidentally inhaled a condom during oral sex, which lodged into her lungs and caused it to collapse.
x6Ao TIL that a 17-year old girl survived a 10,000 feet fall from an airplane after it was struck by lightning and exploded. She landed in a jungle and kept herself alive with only candy and her dad’s advice.
a8n4L TIL in 1983, a soviet military officer “saved the world” from a full-blown nuclear war by disobeying orders, after receiving a false alarm of missiles fired by the USA
4kLXw Today I learned that in Germany and Scandinavia, the musical note B natural is called H, while B flat is just called B.