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TIL a single strand of human hair can support the weight of 100g

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8PPV TIL during the Battle of Iwo Jima, Hospital Corpsman John Willis was treating a fallen Marine in a mortar crater when a grenade landed at his feet. He returned the grenade, followed by 7 others thrown by the enemy in rapid succession, all while administering blood plasma. The 9th grenade killed him.
Bx7e TIL multicellular life only has 800 million years left on Earth, at which point, there won’t be enough CO2 in the atmosphere for photosynthesis to occur.
GYA47 TIL king Gustav III of Sweden commuted the death sentences of a set of twins to life imprisonment if one drank 3 pots of coffee and the other drank 3 pots of tea to test the effects of the newly introduced coffee.
BM7W TIL it is the 105th anniversary of the Tunguska Event - the largest “impact event” on or near Earth in recorded history, and had scientists confused for many years.
rRWl0 TIL that in one of the most unusual instances of "twin films" (movies released around the same time, about the same subject) both Kalifornia (1993) and Natural Born Killers (1994) were based on spree killer Charles Starkweather AND starred Juliette Lewis in the role of the killer's girlfriend.