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TIL Jim Morrison very likely died from the same overly pure heroin that killed Janis Joplin - provided by the same dealer, Jean de Breteuil.

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lo7wA TIL that over 1983-2000, 96% of US plane crash victims survived.
9xVr TIL Pistachios used to be dyed pink and would stain your fingers when you ate them.
P1Z6V TIL of Dr Joe Holland, who in 1917 guided the Postmaster in the Outback town of Halls Creek to perform surgery (repair a ruptured bladder) on an injured man via Morse code. Dr Holland then raced 2800km from Perth to reach Halls Creek via ship, model T Ford and the final 40km on horseback at night.
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8a8MP It's long been known that Hawking's birthday, January 8, 1942, fell on the 300th anniversary of the death of another great science mind, Galileo Galilei. But the day of his death, in the early hours of March 14, 2018 at his home in Cambridge, England, happened to coincide with the birthday of yet another genius: Albert Einstein, born March 14, 1879.