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TIL that NFL coach Jon Gruden and actor Dean Norris (best known for playing Hank Schrader on "Breaking Bad") attended high school together in South Bend, Indiana.

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VrdB TIL George Washington was so afraid of being buried alive that he asked his staff to wait two days after his death to be buried.
BgKgd TIL in 2012 LL Cool J broke the nose, jaw, and ribs of a man charged with breaking into his home. His family was sleeping when their home security alarm went off at 1am, "sending LL Cool J into action". After catching the man, he held him until the authorities arrived.
E1XZd TIL about "museum bugs.” Flesh-eating beetles eat the tissue from bone specimens for museum displays.
gMmK7 TIL: Jon Brower Minnoch was an American man who, at his peak weight, was the heaviest human being ever recorded, weighing 1,400 lb (635 kilograms; 100 stone). This additionally makes him the largest known primate ever to have lived, exceeding the upper estimated size of Gigantopithecus.
KYGPG TIL that the people in Pompeii did not become "stone statues" by the lava flowing by, but rather encapsulated under a layer of lava and their decomposed bodies leaving a void which arceologists filled with plaster to recreate the bodies that once was there and the postures in which they died.