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TIL that Jewel (the singer) almost died and was homeless because she didn’t have medical insurance. The only thing that saved her was a generous doctor.

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0wJpL TIL that John Krasinski saved a woman from drowning when he was 17 years old.
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yQkew TIL that magenta does not exist in the visible light spectrum and does not have a corresponding wavelength, so your brain interprets it as "not green"
Y7V9x TIL that Mbaye Diagne was a UN peacekeeper who disobeyed his orders to stand down during the Rwandan Genocide in 1994. Acting entirely on his own initiative, he embarked on rescue missions. Diagne is credited with singlehandedly saving the lives of as many as 1000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
9b9B TIL: A Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet protested against redeploying the fleet to Pearl Harbor, believing doing so would put the fleet at unnecessary risk if war broke out with Japan. He was relieved of command in February, 1941.