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TIL: Wild Bill Hickok usually sat with his back to a wall so he could see the entrance of the building he was in. On his last day, when he went to play poker, the only seat available was one facing away from the door. He tried changing seats twice, but couldn’t. He was shot in the back of the head.

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4XYYo TIL: Michael Shen Fu-Tsung was one of the first Chinese to visit England in 1681. His works can still be found at Oxford University library.
xVQ4w TIL after laying eggs, octopus moms’ only function is to protect and tend to their eggs because their brain shuts down except for the optic glands. They remain stationary for anywhere from months to years depending on the species of octopus, uninterested in food even when its offered to them.
4k0kN TIL there is a whale known as the 52-hertz whale (also known as 52 Blue) of an unidentified species that has never been sighted, but has been heard and known to exist since the late 1980s. There was also a feature length documentary about it that Leonardo DiCaprio was an executive producer for.
QNNak TIL the the song “The Way” by Fastball is based on a real elderly couple from Salado, TX who went missing in June 1997 and later found dead at the bottom of a ravine near Hot Springs, AR a couple weeks later.
5VNQr TIL about John Allen Chau an American evangelical christian missionary who was killed by the Sentinelese which is a tribe in voluntary isolation, while trying to introduce them to christianity.