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TIL of the very mysterious death of Edgar Allen Poe

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Oo11X TIL ice, water, and vapour can coexist under a specific condition known as the triple point where water can freeze, melt and boil at the same time.
N7Q0M TIL: In 1963, major league baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, an hour after Neil Armstrong set foot on the surface of the moon, Perry hit is first, and only, home run while playing for the San Francisco Giants.
YVGx TIL: Disney’s “Dumbo” was solely made to recoup the financial losses from “Fantasia”. “Dumbo” became an Academy Award winner and saved Disney during WW2
jN7yv TIL the term "space" (to represent a place beyond the earth) was coined by a female poet in the 1800s - Lady Emmelunw Stuart-Wooley in her poem "The Lady of Moscow."
oBy8A TIL that Stockbridge Police Chief William J. Obanhein, who in 1964 posed for Norman Rockwell famous Ruby Bridges painting "The Problem We All Live With", was surprisingly also the “Officer Obie” of Arlo Guthrie’s 1967 hit song “Alice’s Restaurant.”