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TIL of angel gowns. Wedding dresses are donated to charities and people sew them into infant sized dresses for deceased infants that died in NICU. Grieving families can take pictures or baptize their babies prior to laying them to rest. These are made through no cost of the family.

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LYDp TIL Russian cosmonauts carried a convertible shotgun which doubled as an axe and machete into space. The shotgun was kept to kill bears in case the crew landed in a remote area in the Taiga region of Russia.
lodkK TIL If you grind a marine sponge through a sieve into salt water, it'll reorganize itself back into a sponge. It's the only animal that we know of that can do that.
VXp4 TIL Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the Portuguese consul in Bordeaux during World War II, defied a direct order from his own government and issued transit visas to as many as 30,000 refugees seeking to escape the Nazis
Bgmod TIL Pope Francis’ tomb will be in a former candelabra closet
Z86lG TIL there is a blood sport known as Spider Fighting, where two spiders are placed on opposite ends of a stick and pushed towards the middle to fight one another. In 2002, inmates in a Florida prison got into a fight resulting in life threatening injuries over the theft of a pet fighting spider.