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TIL of Jack Lucas. He joined the Marines at 13 to fight in WW2, survived a blast after jumping on two grenades to save his team, and later survived a free fall from an airplane after both of his parachutes failed.

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N7bke TIL that after Balto the sled dog became famous for his role in saving a remote area from a diphtheria outbreak, he toured America on the vaudeville circuit. When a Cleveland businessman found Balto chained at a "dime museum" in LA, he bought the dog to live out his life at the Cleveland Zoo.
gZ74 TIL Keith Richards, after being caught with an ounce of heroin and five grams of cocaine in canada, abandoned by his band and facing life in prison for drug trafficking, found himself alone in the studio the night before his court date, and recorded his first 5 songs ever has a solo artist.
VMON8 TIL Karen, a 27-year-old currently living in San Diego, had a world-first open-heart surgery when she was only two years old. Karen is an orangutan.
p8wZ TIL that since the making of the documentary “Jesus Camp”, one of the pastors from Kids on Fire announced that due to negative reactions to the camp after the film, the camp which was held once a year for three weeks has been discontinued indefinitely and will be replaced by other events.
LQo9Z TIL that first person to perform cardiac catheterization did so on himself. He then walked downstairs to the radiology department to take an x-ray to prove that the procedure was not fatal. Despite his success, he was fired and later became a Nazi. However, he eventually won the Nobel Prize.