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TIL that Gerard Way & Joe Rogan are cousins

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1MbX TIL in 2000 a man in Georgia was shot 16 by police officers and lived. The trauma center surgeon that treated him said that most of the bullets were stopped by the 6'6 225lbs man’s muscles.
QXg6 TIL the Grateful Dead provided funding for the Lithuanian national basketball team for the 1992 Olympics since the squad could not afford to participate. They wore tie-died jerseys during games and donned full Dead regalia during the medal ceremony for winning 3rd place.
kJgLe TIL that Ryan Gosling was fired from The Lovely Bones after gaining 60 pounds for the role by drinking melted Häagen-Dazs ice cream. He had envisioned the character as overweight, but the director disagreed, leading to his dismissal.
l7KdK TIL that some people can voluntarily contract their tensor veli palatini—a muscle near the ear and throat—which opens the eustachian tube (normally closed), making a clicking sound (same as when you swallow or yawn) which equalizes the pressure in the middle ear. This is useful for freedivers.
LkRl0 TIL That During the Cold War, This Man, Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov, Prevented A Nuclear War Which Would Have Caused Global Devastation With Unimaginable Numbers of Civilian Deaths.