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TIL when Buddy Holly died, his pregnant wife first got the news through the TV, and the shock caused her miscarriage, leading to the policy requiring families to be informed before media can release the victims’ names.

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gM19b TIL that the feeling that time passes faster as you age is actually a thing, and it happens because of the pace of new memories your brain records
6E55m TIL Aeschylus, the ancient Greek tragedian, was killed when an eagle mistaken his bald head for a rock and tried to shatter the shell of a tortoise on it.
Z8BEa TIL that Leonardo Da Vinci invented ball bearings - a friction-reducing part without which no modern machinery would be possible
0wD9M TIL about Photic Sneezing, which is caused by looking at bright lights, rather than by irritants in the nasal passage. Only around 18-35% of people have them and it’s a genetic condition. It’s also known as ACHOO Syndrome.
9yaX TIL in 1976, Japan donated 53 bonsai trees to the US for its bicentennial, including a white pine that had been tended daily since 1625 and survived the Hiroshima atomic blast. Its history was unknown until 2001, when two brothers showed up at the museum to check on their grandfather’s tree.