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TIL about Frozen Dead Guy Day an annual celebration held in the town of Nederland, Colorado, to loosely celebrate the cryopreservation of a Norwegian citizen.

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e0yLb TIL John Steinbeck after visiting Kiev in 1947: "If the US were completely destroyed from New York to Kansas, we would have about the area of destruction Ukraine has. If six million people were killed, not counting soldiers, 15% of the population, you would have an idea of the casualties of Ukraine"
9YZpr TIL that Ethernet inventor Robert Metcalfe predicted that the internet would collapse in 1996, promising to eat his words if not. In 1997, he took a printed copy of his column that predicted the collapse, put it in a blender with some liquid and then consumed the pulpy mass.
oRAK7 TIL the misunderstood lyrics you sing are known as a Mondegreen.
kJlD1 TIL that epidermolysis bullosa (EB), a rare genetic condition that causes skin to become extremely fragile and prone to blistering, led to the death of a two-month-old baby named Felix Jean.
E1QZX TIL Jesus is referenced in the Quran, directly or indirectly, 187 times. Making him the most referenced person in the Quran.