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TIL Spontaneous Human Combustion Is (Almost Definitely) a Myth

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n8Ko TIL Humphrey Bogarts last words were “I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.”
00Gp TIL Lake Baikal in Siberia has more water than all the Great Lakes combined.
R7xr8 TIL that actor Edwin Booth, elder brother of Abraham Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth, saved the life of Robert Todd Lincoln, the only one of Abraham Lincoln's sons to survive into adulthood.
jNGWM TIL Jack Fishman, co-created naloxone in 1961, but it was not widely used for decades. He died in 2013 before seeing the full impact of the crisis and how his invention saved so many lives
R7Kna TIL there is a popular resort town in China that is a near-replica of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, complete with its own Teton Village and Million Dollar Cowboy Bar. The town’s Chinese name translates literally to “Hometown, USA”.