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TIL legendary producer Rick Rubin held an actual funeral complete with casket and grave for the word “Def” after finding out it had been accepted into the standardized dictionary. Amongst those who attended in 1993 included Tom Petty, Flea, and Trent Reznor.

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awgm9 TIL of Cliff Young, a 61 year-old Australian farmer, who won a 875 km (544 mi) 1983 ultra marathon from Sydney to Melbourne by running for 5 days, 15 hours, and 4 minutes. He did this in overalls and boots—and without his dentures, which he said rattled in his head when he ran.
wL1E1 TIL about Rattlesnake Kate, a Colorado woman who slaughtered 140 rattle snakes with a .22 and a "No Hunting" sign to save her baby. Afterwards, she made herself a dress, shoes and a belt from the snakeskins.
GmXG TIL at 84 years old, Harvard Professor Tom Lehrer was asked by 2 Chainz for permission to sample a song Lehrer wrote at 24. He responded: “I grant you motherfuckers permission to do this. Please give my regards to Mr. Chainz, or may I call him 2?”
kJowB TIL: various English accents have developed what linguists call a "Mary–marry–merry merger", where all three words now sound the same, due to their vowels converging
gMnaX TIL the Japanese bullet train system is equipped with a network of sensitive seismometers. On March 11, 2011, one of the seismometers detected an 8.9 magnitude earthquake 12 seconds before it hit and sent a stop signal to 33 trains. As a result, only one bullet train derailed that day.