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TIL the closest relatives to Primates, aside from flying lemurs and treeshrews, are rodents and lagomorths (rabbits, hares, pikas)

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K1M6 TIL that Singapore Airlines flight 21 which had the longest non-stop flight (18 hours), from Singapore to New Jersey, had special lockers on the plane to store corpses if people died en route since the flight path over the Pacific Ocean and North Pole meant the plane couldn’t land if someone died.
KJyQ TIL In 2009, the State of Arizona put a lady named Marcia Powell in a human cage and cooked her in her own excriment.
gBg7 TIL that Budapest was once two cities, Buda and Pest. They merged in 1873.
BrRox TIL that the largest number of graves of any cemetery for U.S. personnel killed during World War II is located in Manila, Philippines. It has 17,206 graves. 16,636 of which were U.S. personnel. #MemorialDay
Y71lB TIL 3 Body Problem (TV series)