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TIL There’s a liquid, that even if you’re submersed in it, allows you to breath normally and safely

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AZOw TIL in Japan there is a family that has run the same hotel for nearly 1,300 years … or 46 generations
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jjop TIL US Marine Jack Lucas survived and earned the Medal of Honor by pulling two live grenades under his body during Iwo Jima. Later, he joined the airborne and survived a training jump when both parachutes failed to deploy.
E19dW TIL of Jason Thomas, an ex-Marine who saved two police officers who were stuck in the rubble of the World Trade Center during 9/11, with the help of another ex-Marine David Karnes. When his mom told him about the attack, Thomas retrieved his Marine uniform and sped to Ground Zero without hesitation.
wL60W TIL There are more patterns of connections between neurons in your brain than there are sub-atomic particles in the universe, by a substantial margin