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TIL A man named Walter Summerford was struck by lightning 3 times in his life. After his death, his gravestone was also struck

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R70e6 TIL of Sigurd the Mighty, a Viking earl who after decapitating his enemy Mael the Bucktoothed was cut on the leg by the severed head and died from an infection as a result
GErJ TIL Geraldo Rivera is largely responsible for the Satanic Ritual Abuse Panic of the late 1980’s
NXA1J TIL of Guðlaugur Friðþórsson, a fisherman who in 1984 survived 6 hours in 5 °C cold water after his ship sank and then trekked barefoot for 3 hours across lava fields before reaching safety. Despite only wearing shirt, sweater and jeans, he showed almost no symptoms of hypothermia or vasodilatation.
QNenX TIL that Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky, Sigmund Freud and Tito all lived in Vienna at the same time (around 1913), just within a few kilometres of each other.
Za8a TIL a common medical procedure for people with severe brain injuries is to have part of their skull stored in their stomach temporarily while the brain heals