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

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XNOQ TIL that the Ancient Egyptians used 12 months of exactly 30 days, with 5 days of festivities at the end to add up to 365
kDa4 TIL of the Taxil Hoax, where a Frenchman spent 12 years as a Roman Catholic writing anti-Masonic accounts, only to reveal it was a prank on the Church. As he said “…I thought I would kill myself laughing at some of the things proposed, but everything went; there is no limit to human stupidity”
PPGV TIL George Washington borrowed 2 books from the New York Library when he was president. He never returned them and the fine is estimated at $300,000
KYlgw TIL, In 2010, 80yr old María de Jesus suffered a heart attack and was pronounced dead at a LA morgue. Days later, morticians returned to pull her body for the funeral & found an unzipped bodybag and a corpse with bruises. It was determined that she tried to escape, broke her nose & froze to death
nev4Y TIL A Minnesota man once sprayed toilet-papering teens on his property, with a squirt gun full of fox urine