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TIL in 1937 Angelo Hays slammed headfirst into a brick wall in a motorcycle crash & was declared dead. However he was discovered alive when his body was exhumed 2 days after his funeral. He made a full recovery & invented a coffin that contained a "small oven, refrigerator & a hi-fi cassette player"

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kOQ4d TIL in mid 18th century Gross National Income per capita (PPP) of countries that today make up third world (Asia, Africa, Latin America) was more than first world (Western Europe, Northern America, Japan, Singapore and South Korea)
grA0y TIL that the oldest football (soccer) ball dates back to 1540. It's half the size of a normal ball and was made from the bladder of a pig.
x6pxo TIL Simon Wells, great-grandson of science fiction author H.G. Wells (who, among other works, wrote “The Time Machine”) was hired as a “Future consultant” for Back to the Future Part II.
88a4 TIL that anime production typically involves employing the services of 2,000 people per episode around the world and costs US$100,000-300,000 per episode
WkN7Y TIL after 13 years of trying to find the structure of a protein, scientists created an online competitive game that asked gamers to try and solve it. The structure was found in 3 weeks.