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TIL O.J. Simpson’s father was a proud drag queen.

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m1kjx TIL In 1991 both former Senator John Tower of Texas (head of the Tower Commission for the Iran–Contra affair) and astronaut Manley "Sonny" Carter died in the same commuter plane crash in Georgia.
Brxer TIL of Hind al-Husseini, a Palestinian woman who rescued 55 orphaned survivors of the Deir Yassin massacre. She converted her grandfather's mansion into an orphanage to house them, which became a school providing education to orphans and other children from Palestinian towns and villages.
ne85Y TIL primary school children in Scotland honored their class pets who had died with a Viking-style ceremony. They crafted boats from cardboard for goldfish Bubbles & Freddy, spoke dedications to the fish, and then set fire to the boat which was to carry their pets to the Viking Gods in Valhalla.
P1oEn TIL about Archie E. Mitchell, a minister and missionary who disappeared in 1962 while working at a leper colony in Vietnam. On May 5th 1945 his five-months-pregnant wife, Elsie and five children died from Fu-Go balloon bombs in the only war-related deaths in the American continent in World War II.
7r7Wb TIL a 1997 study found that the action of drinking is more thirst quenching than being rehydrated through a nasogastric tube. This is because the physical sensation of drinking tells the brain that you are rehydrating.