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TIL a dead woman Sat in front of her TV Undiscovered for 42 years.

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jZ4X TIL in Feb 2006, Steve Jobs personally called and gifted a 16 year old ten iPods, an iMac and a $10,000 music gift certificate when he bought the iTunes Store’s one billionth song.
W7vxd TIL that licking your wounds can help speed up their healing. Saliva contains a variety of compounds, such as enzymes like lysozyme and peroxidase, and growth factors that can help reduce infection and promote tissue repair. It helps in keeping the wound moist, which can aid the healing process.
V07k TIL a flight Ernest Hemingway was on crash-landed in Africa. He and his companions were rescued and put in another plane, which burst into flames on the runway. Finding the door jammed, Hemingway used his head as a battering ram, butted the door twice and got out.
KY8JG TIL that blue-green algae is not scientifically an algae, but instead a gram-negative bacteria. They are capable of oxygenic photosynthesis and have fossil records dating back 3.5 billion years. Furthermore, they are the first organisms known to have produced oxygen during the Great Oxidation Event.
X6yX TIL that Hitler planned to rebuild Berlin after the war into a neo-roman cosmopolitan city. One state building, the Volkeshalle was to be so massive, that it could rain inside during events due to 150K peoples’ perspiration and breath.