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TIL Thomas Edison’s last breath is stored in a test tube

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PY8NO TIL A man named Brian Randolph was sentenced to 45 months to 25 years in prison after robbing a bank to pay for his daughter's chemo treatment after his insurance was abruptly canceled
Mey5V TIL that in 1985 the New Orleans lifeguards threw a party celebrating having gone an entire season without a single drowning. During the party a man drowned in the back pool while four lifeguards were on duty.
pNKQ TIL Enterprising Kenyans pretended to be Somali pirates and gave fake interviews to foreign journalists for cash
yQDEl TIL a chimpanzee's longest sentence was, "Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you."
5VODQ TIL that the UK government began to buy and nationalise over 300 pubs in 1916 because they felt the nation's workers' excessive drinking was having a detrimental effect on the war effort