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TIL Lemons float, but limes sink

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xGnD TIL that in Japan, prisoners on death row are not given a date of execution. They are notified just a few hours before, and their families are not notified until they are dead.
g9ob TIL that one of the US Navy’s most advanced yet-to-be commissioned missile destroyers is commanded by Captain James Kirk.
9YNap TIL that executed labor leader and song writer Joe Hill had his ashes seized by the US federal government on Oct 8, 1917. The ashes were held for 71 years as they were seen as subversive
mrrE TIL: Harvard university students whose families earn below $60,000 a year receive free tuition which includes free room and board
awP8J TIL: The first Hannibal Lecter movie was not The Silence of the Lambs. But a film called Manhunter from 1986. Though they renamed Lecter to Lecktor.