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TIL St. Lawrence was roasted to death on a hot grill. In defiance he said “Turn me over - I’m done on this side!”. He is now Patron Saint of Comedians

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ADWY7 TIL When Bill Gates' daughter started kindergarten, he dropped her off at school in the mornings to help out his wife, Melinda. Within a few weeks, seeing this, other dads at the school began to drop their children off in the mornings instead of their wives.
D1vNr TIL, mongooses found in Hawai’i are native to India and were originally introduced to Hawai’i Island in 1883 by the sugar industry to control rats in sugarcane fields and have since caused the extinction of 8 federally listed endangered Hawaiian birds.
nW9aW TIL Barbara Morgan, a US teacher-turned-astronaut, had close ties to both fatal Space Shuttle tragedies
pOdA TIL of James Allan Ward. In WW2, the right wing of his Wellington bomber was set afire by a german fighter. He took a canvas cover, crawled onto the wing in mid-flight and put the fire out. His plane landed safely back in Great Britain.
gMr79 TIL that an Englishman took 40,000 ecstasy pills in nine years.