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TIL more people die from drowning in deserts than from dehydration.

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ZpWYR TIL: Bob Dylan gave an incoherent speech at an civil rights award dinner in Dec. 1963 in which he identified with Lee Harvey Oswald
Z8bYa TIL that any US aircraft using the code name "FLYNET" indicates that an aircraft is transporting a nuclear emergency team or a disaster control team to the location of a potential or actual nuclear accident or an accident involving chemical agents or hazardous materials. (Section 9-2-6)
e0Q7k TIL that oil magnate J. Paul Getty, one of the richest humans in history, was so miserly that he laundered his own shirts by hand, reused envelopes and paper, made all the phones in his home coin-operated, and stood in line for hours for show tickets to save 50 cents
yVVDM TIL that Elvis actually was supposed to be born with a twin who died at stillbirth. This then contributed to why his mom was so overprotective of him growing up. Long live the King.
JYpv1 TIL the best tasting animal is the Kudu from South Africa; the worst is the common seagull.