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TIL James Brown was mummified after death and still resides at his daughters home.

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xV9l5 TIL that the world's primary source of low-background steel (steel produced before nuclear detonations) is the sunken remains of the German High Seas Fleet, which was scuttled after WWI to prevent it being divided amongst the Allies.
N7PnP TIL that in 1989, President Bush sent troops to Panama to capture the dictator Manuel Noriega. But because he has fled to The Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See, the troops couldn't get in. So they surrounded the place, and blasted Rock n' Roll music for days until he gave up.
l6d5 TIL “"No president has ever used the [Emergency Alert System] system or its technical predecessors in the last 50 years, despite the Soviet missile crisis, a presidential assassination, the Oklahoma City bombing, major earthquakes and three recent high-alert terrorist warnings…”
gMxoL TIL: Most Octopus species live between 1 & 2 years because of their reproductive process. Males are often strangled & eaten by females during the mating process. Females die a few weeks after laying the eggs as their bodies self destructs through cellular suicide till she dies.
wLGE1 TIL that Einstein was born missing part of the brain that influences speech and did not speak until the age of three. However, his parietal lobe, responsible for math and spatial recognition, was abnormally large