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TIL that in 1987, Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx suffered a heroin overdose that left him legally dead for two minutes. One of his paramedics, who was a Crüe fan, revived him with two shots of adrenaline. This is what motivated the song “Kickstart My Heart”.

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B7we TIL in the 1950’s, a Texas white man named John Howard Griffin went through extensive physical changes to become a black man and traveled for six weeks on buses through the segregated south. After publishing his experiences, hostility and threats forced him to move to Mexico.
9Ylg6 TIL Water has been America's #1 drink since 2013. Before that for 20 years it was soda.
jNlpQ TIL that Emmy Noether, one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century, described her doctoral thesis as "crap", despite it being well received
VB1PB TIL about the Obliteration Room housed in London where visitors are invited to cover over with stickers to eliminate the traces of the original white room through the act of communal “obliteration.”
yQ4Rv TIL That Boeing uses potatoes to test their in-flight Wi-Fi, as they reflect and absorb the signals similarly to people. The project is called Synthetic Personnel Using Dialectic Substitution- or SPUDS.