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TIL that there are certain companies (Eternal Reefs) that turns dead bodies into an Ocean Leaf. They mix the cremated remains of a person to create a pearl which is then encased in reef baals and dropped to sea where it provides a new habitat for fish and sea life and encourages vibrant ecosystem.

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8ekpP TIL after coming to the U.S as part of operation paperclip, Wernher Von Braun married his first cousin and moved to Alabama
oRBPK TIL Yuri Knorozov, a Soviet Officer in the Second World War, went on to become essential in the deciphering of Maya hieroglyphics after finding a book in the German National Library during the end of the war, and taking the statement that "Maya Hieroglyphics were indecipherable" personally.
5V19r TIL The first time Bobby Kennedy spoke publicly about his brother, President John F. Kennedy's, assassination was while telling a majority-black crowd in Indianapolis that Martin Luther King Jr. had been killed, which is credited with keeping the city calm, while other cities erupted in violence.
5YZnr TIL that 'Post-micturition Convulsion Syndrome' is when a person shivers when peeing, or has the 'pee shivers'. And it seems to be more frequently reported by men than women, with no definitive researched reason why it happens in the first place.
9YZwQ TIL that we don't see pure black when we close our eyes, we see a color named Eigengrau and although there are a few theories as to what causes it nobody's quite sure.