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TIL about Jess Larochelle, a Canadian war hero. Despite sustaining severe injuries, including a concussion, broken back, neck, detached retina, and blown eardrum, confronted and forced the retreat of 40 Taliban fighters. There is a campaign to upgrade his war decoration to a Victoria Cross.

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QJQdp TIL about "The Whole Shabangs" potato chips, available almost exclusively from US Prison system commissaries. Ex-cons consider these chips to be the best chip out there, and a high-point of their incarceration. Many end up dismayed and disappointed at their lack of availability "on the outside".
j66xp TIL in 2009, a New Zealand man tied a shoelace around his little finger to act as a tourniquet and cut the finger off with a jigsaw. He then cooked it in a pan with some vegetables and ate its flesh. The act of self-cannibalism occurred during an episode of depression.
v1nRr TIL that there are no commercial king crab farming operations because, in part, these crabs go through a violently cannibalistic adolescence and have to be housed individually to survive it, which is too expensive large scale.
QBWp TIL A study showed that children whose parents placed the children’s pacifiers in their own mouths before giving it to the child were less likely to develop allergies like eczema and asthma later in life.
kO1Yd TIL that 90% of people with the last name “Washington” are black according to the 2000 US census. Of the remaining ten percent, 50% are white, and 30% are mixed race.