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TIL Richard Feynman’s dying last words were “I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.”

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lEPr TIL a British soldier once won the Victoria cross for attacking the enemy with beer bottles during the 1950 Korean war.
xVNJk TIL that as early as 1959 the Russian Luna 3 spacecraft took the first photos of the far side of the Moon and was the first craft to use gravity assistance.
W7G7Y TIL humans do not have 100,000 kilometers of blood vessels, it's more like 9,000-19,000 kilometers
YpkQA TIL in 1903, two men and a pit bull made the first documented journey by automobile from San Francisco to New York using only a connection of dirt roads, cow paths, and railroad beds. The journey took 63 days, became a national sensation, and called for a system of long distance roads.
7rrPp TIL the full name of the possessed Chucky doll from the Child's Play franchise of horror movies was Charles Lee Ray, named after notorious killers Charles Manson, Lee Harvey Oswald, and James Earl Ray.