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TIL a Japanese postman kept 24,000 pieces of mail in his home over nearly 2 decades because he couldn’t be bothered to deliver them.

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y0AV TIL that before her death at 35, Harriet Cole, a maid at Drexel’s College of Medicine, willed her body to Dr. Rufus Weaver, and requested it be used to benefit science. Weaver proceeded with the complete dissection and mounting of her nervous system.
D1B5P TIL: A person with disconnected brain hemispheres can develop 2 separate "consciousnesses" which can disagree with each other and physically impede the other hemisphere's actions.
dDQwj TIL That General Hussein Kamel al-Majid and his brother General Saddam Kamel, who were cousins of Saddam Hussein and married to two of his daughters, defected to Jordan in 1995 to work with the West. In 1996 Saddam convinced them to come home as all was forgiven, they were both dead inside 3 days.
5bkD TIL, The ammount of Vermouth in a martini has gone from a 2:1 ratio to so little it has been quoted, “A perfect Martini should be made by filling a glass with gin, then waving it in the general direction of Italy,” Italy being a major producer of vermouth.
dVjK TIL a few of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge soldiers were found hiding in jungle as recent as 2005, completely unaware Pol Pot died and Vietnamese troops no longer occupied country