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TIL The RAF dropped over 10,000 cats by parachute

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45L6 TIL in 1995 a man in Australia attempted suicide by shooting himself in the chest with a shotgun. When that didn’t work he used a pistol to shoot himself in the head, then used the shotgun again on his throat and finally died after one last shotgun blast to the heart
pYnk8 TIL the Democratic Republic of the Congo built its new National Museum in 2019 with the funding of South Korea. Congolese experts working there are now trained in South Korea instead of by Belgian scientists from the Africa Museum in Brussels
Z4dR TIL that in 1847, a doctor performed an amputation in 25 seconds, operating so quickly that he accidentally amputated his assistant’s fingers as well. Both later died of sepsis, and a spectator reportedly died of shock, resulting in the only known procedure with a 300% mortality rate.
7BX7 TIL that every Treasurer of The United States since 1949 has been a woman.
oBvPA TIL NASA developed a form of concrete that doesn't need water, to be used as a construction material on the Moon