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TIL The New York Times has continually updated the same 2009 article detailing how mass shooters got their guns and what they used

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kJerW TIL On 27 March 2021, Croatia’s Budimir Šobat achieved the world record for breath-holding underwater, with a time of 24 minutes and 37 seconds. However, he breathed pure oxygen before immersion.
1y58 TIL A man ate 425 pennies containing over 1kg of Zinc and died due to gastrointestinal bacterial and fungal sepsis (infection).
YpxaP TIL if 75% of your liver were removed and 25% left, that 25% could regenerate a full size liver in 8 to 15 days? Your new liver would reorganize itself over the course of a few months but it would be functional as it regenerates.
W79Xd TIL Marthe Cnockaert was Mentioned in Dispatches, awarded Legions of Honour and the Iron Cross for her WW1 service. The Iron Cross was for medical services to Germans while the others were for Allies spy work. Cnockaert was captured but not executed because of her Iron Cross, she survived the war.
vPeo7 TIL that the closing song, "(I've Had) The Time of My Life", from the movie Dirty Dancing, has been listed as the "third most popular song played at funerals" in the UK