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TIL That Dreamworks owns the "film rights" to Martin Luther King Jr.'s quotes

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d8KXj TIL during the SARS epidemic in 2004, a 45-year-old Taiwanese woman died from alcohol poisoning after immersing herself in a bathtub full of 40% alcohol for 12 hours, likely because she thought the alcohol would decontaminate her if she had been exposed to the virus.
1aGVr TIL that because of the Universe's expansion, a signal from an event happening at present will never reach the Earth if the event is more than 16 billion light years away
rNYa4 TIL A dead body left on Mars would dry out and mummify better than Egyptian mummies. The first few stages — algor mortis (body cools), livor mortis (blood pools), and rigor mortis (muscles stiffen) — would still take place. But there would be no other overt signs of decomposition.
4X7GJ TIL The Tender Years Doctrine (generally regarded as the age of four and under), presumed in a divorce that the mother should have custody of the child. The law remained in place until the late 20th Century.
kZk4 TIL that 3 masked burglars unknowingly broke into Dolph Lundgren’s home and tied up and threatened his wife. They fled when they found a family photo and realised who owned the house.