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TIL, for the 2024 Solar Eclipse 28 of 50 US States have at least 1 state park with >90% Totality

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OG5YY TIL pistol Peter maravich, NBA player, died of heart failure at age 40 due to a congenital heart defect where he was missing his left coronary artery (the artery that supplies the heart muscle fibers with blood); his right coronary was grossly enlarged to compensate
KOm46 TIL that after the Persian King Khosrow razed the Byzantine city of Antioch he moved the citizens to a new city he name Wēh Antīōk Khosrow literally, "better than Antioch, Khosrow built this"
4R5b TIL Popeye the Sailor owns a dog-like creature whose cells leaked through from the fourth dimension, combined with cells from ours, and transmutated into a creature capable of moving between dimensions and solving difficult problems. His name is Eugene the Jeep.
O4Og TIL the US government commissioned teams of artists and scientists to devise ways to warn humans 10,000 in the future of buried radioactive waste. One suggestion was to breed cats whose fur changed color when exposed to radiation, then immortalize the cats in song and legend.
JGAB TIL: That Japan’s oldest elephant died this year after 60 years alone in an enclosure devoid of grass, trees, or other elephants.