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TIL in 1982 there was a baby, born 2 months premature, with a bullet in his brain. He lived.

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GYQOj TIL In 1920, the New York Times published an editorial titled "A Severe Strain on Credulity," mocking scientist Robert Goddard's contention that a rocket could conceivably leave the atmosphere and even reach the moon. They later printed a retraction, the day after the launch of Apollo 11.
4X46J TIL After Venus Williams won Wimbledon in 2000, her father shouted "Straight Outta Compton!" and jumped over the NBC broadcasting booth
rRlWx TIL During the Depression, Post Toasties (now Post Consumer Brands) decided to use cartoon animals on its boxes and paid its cartoonist $1.5 million in the first year. That artist was Walt Disney, and he used the earnings to build the Disney empire.
1VP TIL that in the making of the South Park episode “Make Love, Not Warcraft” with Blizzard’s help, a random unknown character joined the closed server and started killing people, making the Blizzard people use the “death touch” to get rid of him. (at 3:37)
PYyWO TIL that it was widely assumed that infants felt no pain and they routinely underwent major surgeries without anesthesia up until infant pain was formally recognized in 1987.