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TIL Mr. Perfect, Curt Hennig saved Baseball Hall of Famer, Wade Boggs from bleeding to death while on a hunting trip

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6EDr7 TIL that during "Hell Week", a five and a half day stretch during the training/application phase, US Navy SEAL candidates sleep only a total of four total hours during the week, run more than 200 miles and do physical training for more than 20 hours a day.
d8Ql9 TIL that there is a striking resemblance between Chateau de Rastignac (France) and the White House (US). It is speculated that the castle's plan may have inspired the White House's columns
W7gv4 TIL Leonardo Da Vinci dissected human bodies to understand anatomy and emotions, successfully identifying anatomy aspects that were only published a generation later by another author.
XEYGj TIL about the Gimli Glider, an Air Canada Boeing 767 plane that ran out of fuel and was safely landed on an abandoned airstrip.
OoRdg TIL that the US voted to keep Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge as the UN representative for Cambodia up until the 90s, twenty years after the Khmer Rouge had been destroyed by the Vietnamese