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TIL Marilyn Monroe's sister is still alive today at age 100.

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p89we TIL that despite the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bombing of Tokyo was even worse. Over 100,000 people were killed, several times that number injured, and 1,000,000 displaced in a napalm-filled, incendiary bomb attack by 334, low-flying B-29 bombers.
kOQVW TIL that starting with one red paper-clip, a man was able in 14 ensuing trades to get a house.
LQyQp TIL there are 4 countries left in the world where a dead person's will can be ignored if they took their own life.
JYMBm TIL that the Mosquito is the world’s deadliest animal because they transmit deadly diseases between mammals.
9YxDQ TIL legendary basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is an avid Holmesian and authored his own stories based on Mycroft Holmes in prose and comic mediums