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TIL rats prefer jazz to classical music, when on drugs

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BrXRx TIL siblings born within a year of each other are called "Irish twins", which was a derogatory term referring to poor Catholic families with many successive children
KYwJ6 Til a girl who survived Asiana plane crash was killed by a SFO firetruck that been dispatched to rescue survivors and extinguish flames from the burning Boeing 777.
Me1BK TIL Marie Antoinette (1793) accidentally stepped on her executioner's shoe. Her last words were "Pardonnez-moi, monsieur. Je ne l’ai pas fait exprès" (Pardon me, sir, I did not do it on purpose). Marie Tussaud used her head to create a death mask.
0wlbN TIL That the Vikings were the first people to arrive in Greenland in 982 AD, however they were colonized and eliminated by the Inuit from 1100 AD to 1300 AD
ne7eW TIL that Colorado has more ghost towns than active municipalities