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TIL Frank Sinatra had a bottle of jack daniels placed beside him in his coffin.

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4XAbN TIL of Anthony Mascarenhas, a Pakistani journalist who dared to write the truth about the atrocities committed by Pakistan in Bangladesh in 1971. He flew to UK to ‘visit a sick sister’ and agreed to get it run in the Sunday Times. The story ran the day after he snuck his family out of Pakistan.
MmPK TIL Cuteness inspires aggression which is why we often want to squeeze things we find cute. it’s called “cute aggression”.
X0MkQ TIL: In 2020, Columbians shipped 130 grams of cocaine to Italy, inside individually hollowed out coffee beans. They were caught when a customs official noticed the "sender" shared the same name as a mafia boss in John Wick.
oBOE7 TIL that the Hotel Mario theme song was based off a tune used in the 1933 film "Little Women"
woKpM TIL Captain America co-creator Jack Kirby was drafted into the U.S. Army during WWII, landing at Omaha Beach in Normandy. When a lieutenant found out he was a comics artist, he made Kirby a scout who would advance into towns and draw reconnaissance maps and pictures, an extremely dangerous duty.