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TIL that Bob Marley had a small melanoma in his toe but refused the amputation because of his Rastafarian beliefs. The melanoma spread and killed him.

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JY6gl TIL that, because zeppelins often could not see the ground during flight due to cloud cover, they would lower a man in a small chamber called a sub-cloud car by a wire as much as a thousand or so feet to observe the ground and direct the pilots via telephone.
EbWp TIL James Cameron altered night sky in reworked Titanic after ten years of complaints from Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson
1anxW TIL the IRS doesn't care if you engage in bribery, as long as you pay taxes on it
Ebj0 TIL that first aid training is mandatory in Germany if you wish to obtain a driver’s licence, and every vehicle has to carry a first aid kit.
bjEN TIL Disney animators supposedly slipped a single frame of a naked woman into a film to see if Walt could catch it. There are many variations, but one states that Walt continued watching, and when it finished, asked, “Whose idea was it to add the naked woman?” and fired all those responsible.