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TIL a man drove over 600 miles to listen to the Cubs win the World Series on his fathers grave. Keeping his word on a promise made decades ago

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pY8lO TIL golf champion Ben Hogan was in a near-fatal car crash. Hit head on by a bus, Hogan threw himself in front of his wife to protect her, that saved him from being impaled by the steering wheel. After 2 month in the hospital and multiple surgeries, Hogan won 6 more majors, including 3 in one year.
v90D TIL of the 1987 Goiânia accident in Brazil. Two scrap merchants stole equipment left in an abandoned hospital and inadvertently released radioactive material from a radiotherapy device, resulting in 249 contaminations and four deaths
PXBJ TIL Former Pantera rhythm guitarist Terry Glaze quit, citing that Dimebag Darrell’s talent seemed to make his guitar playing useless.
WkDWL TIL about Autophagy and that fasting is one of the healthiest thing you can do for your body because it activates Autophagy which prevents illness
KOGEQ TIL that the sculptor of Mount Rushmore intended to include, near the presidents, a written history of the United States. Called "The Entablature", it was to have shown contributions by Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln to the first 150 years of American History.