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Today I learned corpses spontaneously open and close their eyes

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nWW8Y TIL that Jim Leavelle, the tan-suited detective famously present at the killing of JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, was also a witness to the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941.
OoEwR TIL during WW1 the Royal Navy essentially dragged a flotilla overland to check German dominance of a strategically important African lake.
Ypx6x TIL that when a random raccoon died in Toronto, people started paying their respects to it and build a small memorial with flowers and candles, even a picture, until the city took away the raccoon corpse.
mbMP TIL the tiny garish Crucifix Toad secretes a glue to catch insect prey that has been found to be the strongest non-toxic adhesive known, works irrespective of temperature or moisture while remaining flexible and porous, and has exciting new applications in medicine, as it is ‘highly biocompatible’.
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