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TIL: The Original G-mail Was Garfield Mail

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j6Q0a TIL, On the night of Frank Sinatra’s death, the ambulance that responded to his home made it to a nearby hospital much quicker than usual. This was because Frank had passed while the series finale of Seinfeld was airing in Los Angeles, and no one was out on the road
QNryk TIL, from the 90s until 2004, the shortest commercial flight in the US was 13 minutes - and flew from Houston to Houston
KONx6 TIL of Pearl S. Buck (赛珍珠 - Sai Zhenzhu), Author and Activist that was the First American Woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature and escaped death in the Nanking Incident of 1927
pY4VN TIL of The Little-Known Legend of Jesus in Japan, where he settled down in Japan to grow garlic, married a farmers daughter, fathered 3 kids and died at 106
pYDVO TIL that the poison apple in snow white is a tomato. It says a "poisoned, poisoned apple" which when this story was written, tomatos had the nickname of poison apples