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TIL Mel Brooks wrote the lyrics to the Sherwood Forest Rap

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N7xwM TIL about an actual "Sleeping Beauty" in that there's a 99 year old (100 this coming December) perfectly preserved body of a 1 year old, named Rosalia Lombardo. She died of Pneumonia in 1920 & filled with grief, her father enlisted Alfredo Salafia to embalm her body so she can be preserved forever.
MvpA TIL that duct tape has been brought on every NASA mission since the sixties and saved the lives of everyone aboard the Apollo 13
o4xL TIL that Vidkun Quisling, the Norwegian prime minister during the Nazi occupation, was sentenced to death 2 years after he introduced death sentence to the country.
DQAKJ TIL that swallowing gasoline isn't generally a cause for concern as long as it doesn't go into the lungs. In fact, trying to vomit it out makes it worse. Also, hospitals frequently see patients suffering from gasoline poisoning after sucking it from vehicles using their… mouths.
GYk5g TIL that Scallions and Green Onions are the same thing, but Chives come from a completely different plant.