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TIL That when a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go.

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4kmmJ TIL Yang Kyoungjong, a Korean soldier, fought in three different armies during World War II. Drafted into the Imperial Japanese Army, he was captured and compelled to fight in the Red Army, then captured again and forced to join the German Wehrmacht, making him a veteran of three different armies.
7WgP TIL to this day, Unsolved Mysteries maintains a web presence, meant to allow those who see an old rerun and perhaps recognize a face or name to submit that information to the proper authorities.
W19N TIL that James Bond originally used a Beretta 418 until a fan of the novels (and small arms expert) wrote to Ian Flemming criticizing it as “a woman’s gun”. When Flemming had Bond switch to his iconic Walther PPK in Dr. No, he wrote the fan into the scene as MI6’s armorer
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mPv TIL the founder of Lamborghini tried talking to Enzo Ferrari about improving their cars, but Enzo refused because Lamborghini was just a small tractor maker.