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TIL that there are currently 3 places in the world where it is illegal to die.

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QJepX TIL that Angela Morley, the first openly transgender woman to be nominated for an Academy Award, was John Williams’ primary orchestrator throughout the 1970s and 1980s. She helped write and arrange the scores for Star Wars, ET, The Empire Strikes Back, Home Alone, Superman, and Schindler’s List.
ADXAB TIL that the Sun costantly produce a roar of around 290 decibels. If sound could travel in space, it would still be around 125db by the time it reaches Earth, around 13 years later: around the volume of a jackhammer
pwMN TIL BMW used to offer Flame Throwers on their cars to stop car jacking in South Africa
Wk1wd TIL that bees will not build in a gap that is very specifically 6-9 mm in width (but they WILL build in larger or smaller spaces). This discovery, called "bee space", made modern beehives with removeable "frames" for honeycomb possible; otherwise, the bees would just cement everything together.
wLddW TIL actress Tippi Hedren is directly responsible for over half of the manicurists in the country (and 80 percent in Southern California) being Vietnamese.