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TIL doctors managed to keep Hisashi Ouchi alive for 83 days after he was blasted with 17 sieverts of radiation, the highest recorded dose any human has ever received. Estimated to be the equivalent to the epicenter of the Hiroshima bomb, the radiation annihilated his DNA and immune system.

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x6LJw TIL That In 1996 during an SAS training exercise 21 year old Bear Grylls broke his back after falling from 16,000 feet due to a torn parachute. 2 years later he climbed Mt. Everest becoming the youngest Briton to reach the world's highest peak at the time.
Yp1r7 TIL that Harvey Weinsten wanted to cut a fish scene from the film Snowpiercer. Director Bong Joon Ho told Weinstein that the scene had personal importance, because his father was a fisherman. This was a lie. The scene stayed in.
OoRGR TIL about Vashti Bunyan, a folk singer from the late 60's that quit her career after her first album was poorly received. Only for it to gain a cult following 30 years later, selling in excess of £3500 online, all without her knowledge. She then returned to her music career with 2 more albums.
nevpY TIL The Name of Sucker Punch Productions was selected because the wife of one of the co-founders didn't like it because 'We figured that the best way to choose a name a 14-year-old boy would think was cool was to choose a name that a lovely and talented 38-year-old woman thought was unacceptable'
G4v7 TIL Modern Romance languages come from a “non-classical” version of Latin called “Vulgar Latin” that had no orthography, was written in graffiti, and spoken by the lower-class. Basically, Romance languages evolved from Latin slang.