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TIL that an Australian local GP has saved a boy's life by using a household drill to bore a hole in the child's skull after he was injured in a bike accident

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9YEyX TIL Manny Pacquiao ran away from home and lived in a cardboard box after his drunk father ate his dog.
YpKxZ TIL Tilda Swinton is a direct descendant of legendary Scottish King Robert the Bruce
aw9e9 TIL Japan bombed Oregon twice during WW2, then invited the pilot to visit the town 20 years later.
JNY1 TIL there’s a food in China called ‘virgin boy eggs’ which are eggs soaked in the urine of school aged boys.
E14wx TIL I learned of Grandma Gatewood who hiked the 2,200 mile Appalachian trail at 55 bringing only Converse shoes, an army blanket and a plastic shower curtain after reading about it in a magazine and telling her children she was going for a walk. She hiked it again at 72 and 75.