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TIL - Sloths sometimes remain hanging from branches even after death.

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pgrN TIL of Tommy McHugh, who at 51 “attempted to evacuate his bowels quickly due to a knock on the toilet door,” suffered a brain hemorrhage, and unlocked a previously hidden talent for creating poetry and art
Z9gY TIL after the North Koreans tried to assassinate the South Korean president, some South Korean generals wanted to dump the assassins’ corpses on the negotiating table
bdPN TIL Conrad Heyer is the earliest-born person of whom a photograph is known to exist. He fought for the Continental Army under the command of George Washington and participated in Washington’s famous crossing of the Delaware in December 1776. In 1852, aged 103, he posed for this daguerreotype.
69w8Z TIL the electronic ankle monitor was inspired by a 1977 Spider-Man comic strip where the villain Kingpin used a similar tracking device on the hero.
grAXW TIL place names in the ancient Korean kingdom of Goguryeo resemble Japanese. This has led scholars to hypothesize a Japonic language related to Japanese was once spoken in Korea.