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TIL: We still make medications from extracts of human urine

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9Y5mD TIL of Event 2O1, a conference held last October with medical, business, and government leaders that predicted a Coronavirus outbreak.
oBbgE TIL of Al Schmid, a US marine who continued to man his machine gun on Guadalcanal even after being permanently blinded by a Japanese grenade, and later received the Navy Cross for his actions
wLL58 Til of Henry Darger- The Chicago janitor and author of a 15,145-page fantasy epic titled "In the Realms of the Unreal"; complete with over 300 accompanying watercolor illustrations filled with nude children.
VBWD8 TIL of The Kardashev scale: A 1-4 scale method of ranking planetary civilizations based on how technologically advanced they are. On the scale, humans are currently at mere 0.73
9YggQ TIL Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" is commonly requested at music gigs in Finland as a joke, similar to how Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird" is in the US.