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TIL Incas, the last known Carolina parakeet, died in the same cage as Martha, the last known passenger pigeon.

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4X79a TIL Winston Churchill, a notorious drinker, circumvented prohibition while visiting the U.S. by obtaining a letter from his doctor prescribing alcohol for treatment following a vehicular accident.
9wwX6 TIL 377 people have completed the ascent to K2's summit. There have been 91 deaths during attempted climbs.
dDkJZ Til about Eben Byers, an early-1900s golfer who died after drinking over a thousand doses of Radithor, a "medicine" laced with radium.
LWR9 TIL Brazilian law requires every hotel to provide condoms to every guest
logvG TIL The first expedition by two members of the French Academy of Sciences to determine the circumference of the Earth (and thereby the length of the meter) was hampered by the French Revolution, and the second one by the Napoleonic wars