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TIL about an actual "Sleeping Beauty" in that there's a 99 year old (100 this coming December) perfectly preserved body of a 1 year old, named Rosalia Lombardo. She died of Pneumonia in 1920 & filled with grief, her father enlisted Alfredo Salafia to embalm her body so she can be preserved forever.

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kJnr7 TIL a poorly designed wireless communications system contributed to deaths of 343 firefighters on 9/11. Back then, emergency services ran many different communication systems which couldn't talk to each other, hindering the evacuation of the firefighters and the overall emergency response.
NMdM TIL there was a Star Wars Holiday Special. It was so horrible, Lucas tried to have all copies deleted. To late.
MekwA TIL in 1928 women competed in the 800 Meters Olympics for the first time and it was reported by the media to be a complete disaster with women fainting and sobbing hysterically. Women were no longer allowed to compete until 1960. In reality, no one fainted and several beat the existing world record.
VKkk TIL that the French each have a single card that holds their entire medical record going back to 1998, which can be scanned wherever they need medical attention
bA7p TIL in 1963, San Francisco Giants Manager Alvin Dark joked, “they’ll put a man on the moon before [Giants pitcher] Gaylord Perry hits a home run.” On July 20, 1969, less than an hour after Neil Armstrong’s historic moon walk, Perry smacked his first career homer.