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TIL Fuel-Air bombs make you suffer: The intense pressure wave and vacuum ruptures your lungs but "causes minimal damage to brain tissue…it is possible that victims...are not rendered unconscious by the blast, but instead suffer for several seconds or minutes while they suffocate"

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Jmoj TIL the last surviving Confederate widow (who died in 2004) married her former husband’s grandson, whose stepson was also his great uncle.
KOgO6 TIL in 2013, a prisoner in Sweden escaped “because he had a toothache and wanted to go to the dentist.” He broke out prison, visited the dentist, and turned himself back in where he received an extra day to his month-long sentence as punishment.
W7Y4L TIL In 2011 the Belly Button Biodiversity project was created to study bacteria in the naval. Researchers found 2,368 different species from just 66 people, half of which were previously unknown. The average person hosted 67 different species, but no single species was common to every person.
W7vdB TIL the photographer that did the cover of Van Morrison's classic album Moondance framed the photos to conceal a large pimple on Van Morrison's forehead.
R7dka TIL When Joseph Gordon-Levitt was a child, his parents bribed him (kind of) into doing commercials by saying he could buy anything he wanted with his earnings. He bought a Street Fighter 2 arcade machine.