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TIL Japanese Calligraphy Ink Is so expensive and it takes years to fabricate it

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BgENb TIL in the 1980s a man with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder shot himself in the head in an attempt to commit suicide - Instead of killing him, the bullet destroyed the part of his brain that was responsible for his OCD, and he went on to become a straight-A college student five years later
won57 TIL Doug Hegdahl was captured during the Vietnam War and while pretending to be stupid was able to disabled enemy trucks, memorize info about 250 fellow prisoners, and, after being released, participated in the Paris Peace Talks, which eventually helped to free said prisoners.
nPwW TIL that X% chance of rain doesn’t mean there is a X% probability it will rain. It means you’ll definitely get rain over X% of your geographical area.
awl8M TIL of John Ruffo, a fugitive who in 1998 was convicted of a scheme to defraud US and foreign banking institutions of 350 million dollars. He was last sighted in 2001, visiting community banks trying to open an account so he could receive $250 million of wire transfers from Nigeria.
XV0E TIL that during his time at the White House, Herbert Hoover would speak Mandarin to his wife when they wanted to avoid eavesdroppers.