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TIL Eastern Michigan Football signed a defensive lineman legally named Lion King

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v1Lgj TIL Assisted suicide means: one receives assistance but causes their own death. Euthanasia means: another person causes the death. Some US States allow physician-assisted suicide but not euthanasia. Switzerland allows assisted suicide even by non physicians if carried out for unselfish reasons
dD7NB TIL about the biogenic carbon cycle. A natural cycle of carbon and methane being converted between plants, ruminants, soil, and the atmosphere.
Z8vJR TIL: March 30th is National Doctor's Day in the USA
xVQ7D TIL that the first aircraft autopilot was developed in 1912 and demonstrated in 1914 - and in 1947 a transatlantic flight, including takeoff and landing, was made completely under autopilot control
W7v6d TIL that Jean-Jacques Rousseau developed a boustrophedon musical notation. This required the writer to write the second staff from right to left, then the one after from left to right, etc. Thus the musician avoided jumping a staff while reading.