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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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AAal TIL after the first attempt of the United States to launch a satellite into orbit failed, the Soviet Union offered the United States aid which was earmarked for undeveloped countries.
5RJ9 TIL that the Constitution of the Confederate States of America banned the importation of slaves.
J1lLl TIL in 2012, over 2,000 Koreans gathered to watch a single man pitch a tent (a 24-man army tent) after he claimed on an internet forum that he could do it in under two hours. The event grew so large it even attracted corporate sponsers. The man succeeded, taking about an hour to accomplish the task.
wLe1Y TIL that Bermuda had no indigenous population at the time of its discovery, and there is no evidence of any people having lived there before the British settled in 1609, effectively making the British the first people to ever establish a human population on the island
p8Wd4 TIL it is considered important in Kazakh culture for each individual to know their family tree back at least seven generations. This is due to a strong tradition of oral history.