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TIL The guy who voiced the tootsie pop owl invented the artificial human heart

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PkdJ TIL El Duce (lead singer of The Mentors) claimed in an interview that Kurt Cobain had been murdered and that he knew the killer’s name. Two days later Hoke died after being hit by a train with no witnesses.
nevl7 TIL Sleep literally cleans your brain. During slumber, more cerebrospinal fluid flushes through the brain to wash away harmful proteins and toxins that build up during the day.
0ymp TIL After the sinking of the RMS Titanic (1500 lives claimed), a federal law was passed requiring a complete set of lifeboats. The added weight of the new lifeboats caused an already top heavy SS Eastman to rollover killing 844 people while still docked in the Chicago River.
8bka TIL that during 9/11, the Russian government canceled military exercises in the North Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic Oceans, in order to avoid provoking the US, which had raised it’s military alert readiness to DEFCON 3
woYPP TIL that cats love olives because there's nepetalactone in it, the same chemical that's in catnip!