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TIL Western superstar Kevin Costner is from Compton.

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x6ej7 TIL in 1965 U.S. Patent was issued for the "Blonsky Device" It was a centrifugal birthing table. A woman in labor was strapped to a high speed spinning table that would "gently force the baby out."
nwjY TIL: King Goujian’s army was known for scaring its enemies before battle by having his front line commit suicide by decapitating themselves
GAZeQ TIL about Desmond Doss, an American combat medic in WW2 who single-handedly rescued an estimate of 75 men in Okinawa in one battle, one at a time, without carrying a single weapon. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his bravery, and was the first conscientious objector to be given it.
yQnwM TIL about Britches, an infant monkey who was taken from his mother shortly after birth and had his eyes sewn shut, so researchers could study his blindness. He was broken out by animal rights activists.
X7lQ TIL A man named Mike Merrill decided to sell shares in himself at $1 a share allowing his stockholders decide what he should do with his life