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TIL Paul Revere was a master silversmith

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AM7a TIL that Although Martin Luther King Jr. was only 39 at the time of his death, autopsy results revealed the he had the heart of a 60-year-old. Doctors believed this was a result of stress.
5YA8Q TIL In 2003 New Zealand engineer Bruce Simpson designed an $5,000 cruise missile using off the shelf parts sourced from the Internet. Despite being entirely legal, his project was shut down by the government.
xVlk0 TIL you're more likely to OD from heroin on a relapse. People who use heroin long enough eventually build up a tolerance. What happens is people who get sober sometimes relapse but take a dose they were on at their worst. They unintentionally kill themselves by not realizing their tolerance dropped.
dN99 TIL Yo Yo Ma once left his 280 year old, $2.5 million cello in a New York City taxicab
R7m81 TIL that former NBA player Randy Foye has a medical condition called "situs inversus", where all his organs are mirrored from their normal positions, but suffered from no complications for his career.