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TIL that a former Khmer Rouge member in Cambodia named Aki Ra has been spending the last 20+ years disarming landmines all over the country, with no pay, and no armor.

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0wQMy TIL Jerry Zucker, the director of Airplane! and Top Secret as well as a writer for Naked Gun, was the director for Ghost (1990) with Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, and Whoopi Goldberg
e0kg TIL that astronauts who live in space for extended periods of time are at risk for developing solipsism syndrome- “a psychological state in which a person feels that the world is not external to his or her mind.”
b6Or7 TIL that babies have a reasting heart rate of 100 to 160 BPM
lo8yB TIL Janis Joplin recorded her most famous song Me and Bobby McGee only 3 days before she died.
OGOP7 TIL the word helicopter is not derived from combining “heli” and “copter” but by combining helico from the Greek for “spiral” and pteron from the Greek for “wing.”