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TIL the Apollo 11 mission spacecraft was off course 97.5% of the time

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0dQM TIL Actor Peter Cushing (Star Wars) once attempted suicide by running up and down stairs in hope that it would induce a heart attack
VBOMm TIL that Phineas Gage survived an accident where a metal rod pierced his skull. It happened in 1948, while working on a new railroad line, a three-foot-long metal rod pierced his left cheek, passed behind his eye, and perforated part of his brain. He survived.
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