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TIL film star Kay Kendall's cancer diagnosis was kept from her, she died believing that she was suffering from an iron deficiency

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wvko TIL The Walt Disney World Railroad has become one of the world’s busiest steam-powered railroads, with 3.7 million passengers served each year.
eYyJ TIL Operation Mockingbird was a classified CIA program spanning from the 50’s through to late 70’s intended to influence the media and create ‘a propaganda network’ of leading American journalists.
rRLJ1 TIL about Margaret Schilling a mental patient who went missing in December 1978. Jan '79 local news reporting her escaped. 5 weeks later, worker finds her body locked alone in a construction area. Her decomp left a stain in the marble of her death pose that endures to today.
PY4DV TIL After Lord Nelson fell at the battle of Trafalgar, he was placed in a large cask filled with brandy in order to preserve his body during the voyage back to England
Anaw TIL: The length of a second is “the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom.”