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TIL of Carl Tanzler, a hospital worker who fell in love with a dying patient. When she perished, he hauled her body out of the mausoleum on a “toy wagon”, preserved her, slept with her corpse for 7 years and planned to send her to space to “restore” her with radiation.

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rgjo TIL when Richard III’s remains were discovered, while the maternal DNA was matched to a known descendant of his sister, his paternal DNA did not match his (supposed) modern relatives.
6pWZ TIL that in West Virginia and Ohio it is illegal to warm your car up and leave it running to go back inside during cold weather months.
R7NYj Today I learned about the "slap mark" created by the needle of your speedometer when you get into an accident. It's how investigators determine the speed you were going when it happened.
mxZPv TIL there's a giant frieze decorating the US Supreme Court which depicts the "18 Greatest Lawgivers in History," and it includes a depiction of the Prophet Muhammed.
P1b5L TIL: the pallbearers at President Grant’s funeral were: Confederate generals Simon Bolivar Buckner and Joseph E. Johnston, Admiral David Dixon Porter, Senator John A. Logan and his close friends: Sheridan and Sherman