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TIL Louise-Marie-Thérèse passed gas while she was dying. She uttered “Good. A woman who can fart is not dead” and then died.

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x6e85 TIL - Appetite control in the human body is so complex that there are ~20 appetite inhibitory hormones and 6 appetite stimulatory hormones all acting to maintain our satiety. This complex biology has made it exceptionally difficult to formulate drug interventions for appetite control.
nWnZ9 TIL Otávio Jordão da Silva Cantanhede, a 20-year-old Brazilian amateur football referee,was lynched, beheaded and quartered by football spectators after he stabbed a player to death in a match he officiated on 30 June 2013
JY9nl TIL that "mouth breather" is not a random insult. Breathing through your mouth can actually harm your body and brain, causing ADHD, fatique or the deformation of of your face and general posture
WkYYX TIL that a man called Gregory Nemitz claimed ownership of an asteroid months before NASA landed a probe in it. He then proceeded to issue NASA a US$ 20 parking ticket for landing there
m1kvR TIL of Black Caesar. He was a West African pirate who operated during the Golden Age of Piracy. He served aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge of Edward Teach (Blackbeard) and was one of the surviving members of that crew following Blackbeard’s death at the hands of Lieutenant Robert Maynard in 1718.