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TIL that Aaron Swartz is dead for nothing.

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nWlZd TIL that the possibility of Black Holes was proposed in 1783 in a letter to the Royal Society
N7E5M TIL about Bulgarias Abandoned Disabled children who suffered so much neglect and even died at these types of orphanages so heart breaking
VMGwG TIL that in 1929 the NFL team, the Orange Tornadoes from Orange, NJ wore letters on their uniforms instead of numbers.
wLdoo TIL that young giraffes can moo. Even though adult giraffes do not often make noise audible to human ears, a baby giraffe may "moo," especially if it is in a stressful situation. The sound is very similar to a young calf calling out to its mother.
Lkaed TIL Martin Luther King Jr., in his last speech "I've Been to the Mountaintop," anticipated his early demise but was contented to be in the same position as the Biblical Moses, who could look on the promised land but would die before ever reaching it. King was assassinated the next day.