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TIL about the "Greenbrier Ghost," whose testimony from beyond the grave helped convict her murderer in a landmark court case.

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JjQv TIL Starbucks uses round tables to make solo coffee drinkers feel less alone.
W74j8 TIL that out of the 13 official Disney Princesses, only Tiana from The Princess and the Frog was born in the United States. She was born around 1910 in New Orleans. While Pocahontas was born around 1596 in what is now Virginia, the United States didn’t exist at the time.
OGVmR TIL that a delicacy exists in Inuit culture called Urumiit, which is the feces of the ptarmigan bird
6EXE7 TIL Bill Gates accidentally got into philanthropy after he and his wife accidentally came across extremely impoverished people while they were sight seeing. He now says philanthropy is the "best job in the world."
XEmZE TIL it took the Mythbusters team two years to find a company that would make lead foil thin enough for a lead balloon.