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TIL Buddy Hollys wife upon hearing on the news of her husbands death had a miscarriage the next day leading authorities to adopt a policy in the coming months not to release victim names till their families have been informed

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D1APr TIL about Apophis (Egyptian god of death and darkness), an asteroid that will pass earth closer than our own satellites orbit on Friday 13th, 2029. It will touch our atmosphere, and we will be able to see it wiz overhead. There is a debated chance of it impacting Earth when it returns in 2036.
9wYRM TIL that a Polar Bear’s liver contains enough Vitamin A to kill as many as 52 adults. If you spread it out and took just enough to get your RDA every day, that liver will last you 143 years.
OoQLe TIL Charles Darwin waited 20 years to publish his theory on evolution because he was concerned about the public and ecclesiastical acceptance of his deeply radical idea.
OoGyY The third molars—the last of a group of teeth that grinds food into easy-to-swallow chunks—tend to be overcrowded in adult human mouths, and thus require yanking. But every other toothed mammal has room for their “wisdom teeth,” and so did Neanderthals and other early hominids, says evolutionary biologist Leslea Hlusko of the University of California, Berkeley. So why have those teeth become such a pain for us?
69G9J TIL that Michael Richards, who played Kramer on Seinfeld, appeared as a contestant on The Dating Game in 1968. He was not chosen for the date.