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TIL Meinhardt Raabe, who played the Coroner Munchkin in The Wizard Of Oz, was also a pilot in the Civil Air Patrol during World War 2, as well as a ground instructor.

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9wOE7 TIL Estelle Peck faced a decision after her Japanese husband was incarcerated, stay with her husband of 13 years and be incarcerated or remain in Los Angeles alone. She chose to be with her husband, making her one of the few non-Japanese individuals incarcerated in these camps.
N7AdP TIL about Kenny brack, a former Indy racing car driving who got into a crash & experiencing a declaration of 214g, holding the record for surving the highest G force experienced by a human. It also made his body 214 times Heavier for a fraction of second, weighing 15 tonnes.
a87VN TIL that Elizabeth Holmes' father was an executive at Enron, a corporation which famously collapsed after it was discovered that they had continually and egregiously defrauded both their own investors and the federal government.
07BR TIL a man was cured of HIV in Germany via a bone marrow transplant from a donor whose gene mutation made him immune to HIV. That gene is relatively common in N. Europe. Researchers have speculated that the gene is the result of natural selection during diseases similar to small pox or Black Death
b9xxQ TIL almost all meteors never hit the surface of the earth: the pressure of the atmosphere usually causes them to explode. Only extremely large meteors, upwards of 100 meters in diameter, ever directly reach the surface of the earth.