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TIL Bhanbhagta Gurung saved his pinned unit from a sniper with his rifle. Gurung didn’t wait for orders and rushed to the nearest foxhole taking out the enemies with grenades, his bayonet, and Kukri; Taking 5 enemy positions single handed, against light machine guns.

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5YP1p TIL Artie Lange was paid $140k in one night to perform two shows at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas during Super Bowl week 2007, his highest paid stand up gig at that point. After gambling, hookers, and drugs, he spent $145k that trip.
x6jyg TIL about the Paria Pipeline disaster. Because of the delta-p, 5 maintenance workers got sucked 60ft underwater, and hundreds of feet out to sea in a pipeline. One man managed to survive due to ‘miraculous’ events.
4kkGJ TIL that the deepest swimming pool in the world has a depth of 60 m (200 ft) and holds 14 million liters (3.7 million gallons) of water, about as much as 6 Olympic-sized swimming pools. It is called Deep Dive Dubai.
YpJKB TIL Lizzy Murphy known as "The Queen of Baseball",was the first woman to play professional baseball, competing with male athletes in 1922. She played baseball for 17 yrs as a first baseman; she also played on several all-star teams and was the first person of either sex to play on both AL & NL teams
LkbJV TIL: The unrefrigerated milk they buy in Europe has a shelf life of up to SIX MONTHS when unopened, compared to just 7-10 days in the US and Canada thanks to different pasteurization methods.