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TIL a married father in France went to the hospital complaining of a 2 week history of mild leg weakness, only to find out he lived his whole life with 90% of his brain missing

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Y7pOP TIL Lead additive in gasoline and Freon for refrigeration was invented by the same person.
b9dmN TIL that Lawrence Taylor, Considered by Many to be the Greatest Defensive Football Player of All Time, Was Actively Addicted To Crack For Much of His Career Smoking 3 Days A Week Or More In The Same Year That He Won an MVP Trophy
VMYl0 TIL there’s a comapny that specializes in custom World War I & II weapons and mini figurines compatiable with ®LEGO
LO8v TIL the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi will be the first time Russia has ever hosted the Winter games. It also has the warmest climate of any city to ever host the winter games.
A1Zo TIL in 1981, the Brazilian dictatorship planned an attack to an event attended by 20k people. The 2 soldiers that carried the attack made a mistake and ended up blowing the bomb on themselves (1 dead, 1 injured). The attack was planned to convince the country that left-wing guerrilas were a threat.