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TIL that Charles Darwin's pet tortoise died at 176 years old in 2006, whilst Darwin himself died in 1882.

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Brvgd TIL while dying of stomach cancer and hospitalized in 1989. Osamu Tezuka (creator of Kimba and Astro Boy) was still able to draw tons of sketches with his pens and paper. His last words was "I'm begging you, let me keep working!" as a hospital nurse took away his pens and paper so he could rest.
grLX9 TIL in 1969, Hungarian gastrophysicist Nicholas Kurtis, with the newly available microwave oven, created a reverse baked Alaska consisting of a frozen meringue shell filled with hot liquor he called the "frozen Florida".
Z8rRv Today I learned that during the preparation for the Apollo 11 mission, those going aboard the spacecraft took poetry lessons, to be able to creatively convey what it felt like on the moon.
ANK6w TIL Henry Kissinger was an Honorary Member of The Harlem Globetrotters
oRevo TIL Michael Jackson's pet chimpanzee Bubbles is still alive, and lives in the Center for Great Apes sanctuary in Florida, where his care is paid for by Jackson's estate