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TIL of a law for how to handle simultaneous deaths. The Uniform Simultaneous Death Act says that if (for example) a husband and wife die in a plane crash without a will, the husband died before the wife and the wife died before the husband. Their estate is divided evenly.

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wLOR6 TIL that there is a very rare and special type of gemstone that can only be found and formed in fossils of extinct species of cephalopods over the process of hundreds of millions of years. The most expensive opal in the world is one of these being an opalized fossil valued at over $1,000,000.
bD7E TIL during his undergraduate years, Newton made college notes that detailed the movement of water from plants to leaves - 225 years before the natural phenomenon of transpiration was first widely proposed in 1895.
Br5ox TIL of Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, a Roman emperor who lived a simple life on a farm and only took power as Dictator of Rome when people asked him to save the republic. During his two reigns, he only stayed in power long enough to get the republic through an emergency, then returned to his farm.
wo8AW TIL the Aerosmith song Walk This Way was inspired by the "walk this way" joke from Young Frankenstein.
DB7p TIL In 1492, Sultan Bayezid II sent the Ottoman Navy to help evacuate Muslims and Jews during the Spanish Inquistion and “he threatened with death all those who treated the Jews harshly or refused them admission into the empire”