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Today I learned corpses spontaneously open and close their eyes

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XE5wX TIL the Vallejo Police Department is attempting to collect the Zodiac Killer's DNA from the back of stamps he used during his correspondence. The DNA results are due this month.
b6n54 TIL in a soccer penalty kick shootout, the team kicking FIRST wins 60% of the time.
6EGoZ TIL of Witold Pilecki, Inmate 4859, who volunteered to be imprisoned in Auschwitz to collect intelligence and escape two and a half years later. He was executed by the Soviet puppet state in Poland in 1948.
Y7KDG TIL the corpse of an astronaut monkey is preserved at Smithsonian Air and Space Museum with its hand placed over its heart
Wk0B8 TIL That in 1941, Rudolf Hess, the "Deputy Fuhrer" of Nazi Germany, seemingly without Hitler's knowledge, flew to Scotland in a deranged plan to meet a Scottish baron he knew, and through him meet with Churchill to persuade him to stop the war. He was found by a farmer and immediately imprisoned.