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TIL that in 1968, the autopsy of the 39 year old Martin Luther King Jr. revealed that he had the heart of a 60 year old, likely due to the stress of leading the civil rights movement

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e0Qyn TIL that Turtle Island is a name for North America used by some Indigenous and First Nations people and by some Indigenous rights activists, based on the Iroquois belief that the earth is supported on the back of a gigantic turtle called Hah-nu-nah
Oorp6 TIL that a chicken has more bones in its neck than a giraffe
QrDM TIL that Mr. Rogers testified in the landmark case for people’s right to record TV programs, saying that people should be able to decide when they watch TV: “I am opposed to people being programmed by others”
Ejrp TIL of Prader WIlli syndrome which leads to a feeling of constant insatiable hunger 24x7 throughout the patient’s life
xVeMB til Toy Story 2 was accidentally deleted but was saved when technical director Galyn Susman, who had been working from home to take care of her newborn child, revealed she had backups of the assets on her home computer.