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TIL in 2011 Fagilyu Mukhametzyanov collapsed at home from a heart attack & was declared dead. Days later, as she lay in the casket at her own funeral, she woke up. Seeing all the weeping mourners, she began yelling & was rushed to the hospital where she died again 12 minutes later of heart failure.

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PYBGw TIL about Jan Davis and Mark Lee, two NASA astronauts who were secretly married shortly before their launch on the space shuttle, becoming the only married couple to travel to space together
4Xoma TIL of the Xylospongium, also known as sponge on a stick, was a hygienic utensil used by ancient Romans to wipe their anus after defecating, consisting of a wooden stick with a sea sponge fixed at one end.
ep4A5 TIL: "Oreology" and Oreologist" are actual scientific terms. which studies the flows and fractures of Oreos and whether they can be evenly split in a way that the creme filling is equal. PhD candidates even invented an "Oreometer". The study led people to be familiar with rheology, the actual field.
gMXJX TIL about "Aquaponics" which combines fish farming with plant farming, using water and waste from the fish to grow plants. It can require as little as 2% of the water used in standard farming methods.
e0Abg TIL that a Spanish double agent, Juan Pujol Garcia got medals for spying from both Nazi Germany and the British Empire. He ran a fake spy network in London for Germany and recruited 27 fictitious agents all on German dime to provided them with fake intelligence during WW2.