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TIL I learned that Major General Walter Reed died at Walter Reed

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EgZBV TIL Joey Ramone was in remission from lymphoma, but his lifelong OCD led him to go back to his chiropractor to see if he closed the door right. He slipped on ice and broke his hip, forcing him out of chemo to recover, which ultimately lead to the lymphoma reemerging and ultimately killing him.
PYlKJ TIL that "Dora the Explorer" is a pun on the Spanish word for explorer: "exploradora"
O5Y7 TIL that Steve Jobs always parked in the handicap parking zone
kjJd TIL that Princeton researchers successfully turned a live cat into a functioning telephone in 1929
DQ16r TIL computer scientist Jean-Marc Salotti calculated that in order to survive, a human colony on Mars would need at least 110 indidivuals. At this number, growth would offset many of the factors that could lead to collapse of the society.