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TIL Jesus actor Jim Caviezel was struck by lightning whilst filming The Passion of the Christ

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DV7Y TIL that Pakistan is actually an acronym for Punjab, Afghan, Kashmir, Indus and Sindh. The suffix -istan means “land” or “home”
Nao1 TIL that we know what potassium cyanide tastes like, because an Indian scientist left a note describing its taste as he committed suicide. “Doctors, potassium cyanide. I have tasted it. It burns the tongue and tastes acrid,”
e0L1D TIL the Endurance Expedition crew was shipwrecked and stranded in the Antarctic in 1914 for two years, and miraculously the entire crew survived.
J1Ajk TIL about Saint Patrick’s Battalion, a unit of Irish-American immigrants who fought for the Mexican Army in the the Mexican-American War
695aW TIL that there has not been a video game released with an Adults Only ESRB rating in 8 years, and there have only been 26 released AO games in history