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TIL there are actually six degrees of burns

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PYMow TIL (Adjusted for inflation) Germany's military Budget in WW2 at its peak was smaller than the Current US Budget by about 33%.
VBkgk TIL Spc. Sean Baker was nearly beaten to death during a training exercise at Gitmo where he played the role of a detainee. Despite using the codeword and identifying himself, the beating only stopped when his jumpsuit ripped revealing fatigues
MR67 TIL that dropping a marshmallow onto a neutron star would create an explosion bigger than 1000 hydrogen bombs.
v1LKj TIL that Michael Jordan almost declined to join the famous 1992 Olympic "Dream Team". He had already won a gold medal before as an amateur in 1984, and has said that he regrets joining again in 1992 as it distracted from his offseason rest.
eB86 TIL-25 hospitals in North America & Europe have visual messages strategically placed near the ceilings in operating rooms. These messages are only visible when read from above, and are part of an on-going study to test the validity people claiming to have ‘out of body’ experiences.