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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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Ox1g TIL there is a secret cemetery in France, where no flag is allowed to fly, which holds the bodies of American soldiers convicted of heinous crimes during WWII.
0d7RM TIL that the saliva pouring from the aliens mouth in Alien (1979) is KY jelly, and the tendons in its jaws are shredded condoms
e06ED TIL a male grey wolf, dubbed OR-7 or Journey, migrated more then 1000 miles alone through Oregon and California in search of a mate.
mx6No TIL Sailors from 1700-1980 used distillation of sea water to create safe drinking water and current navy fleets can desalinate more than a million of gallons of water a day and be used in times of drought on land.
EWBP TIL Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ was labelled “immoral” and banned in a Virginia school. She wrote a letter determining school board member illiteracy as the issue causing this decision and donated to a fund hoping “to enroll the (School Board) in any first grade of its choice”.