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TIL about thanatologists, people who study death, dying, loss, and grief from multiple perspectives (medical, physical, psychological, spiritual, ethical, and more).

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wLWAM TIL how maglev trains work from a Professor in 1975. He shows how to overcome the flipping magnets problem and how to move the train along with magnetism.
m11ey TIL the Seychellois are the world's biggest drinkers consuming on average 20.5 litres of alcohol a year and the germans are only 6th!
VBpKB TIL the legal names of Michael Jackson's kids are Michael Jackson, Paris-Michael Jackson and Prince Michael Jackson.
R5kaj TIL English rock band "The Verve" were required to relinquish 100% of their royalties from their hit "Bittersweet Symphony" for using a sample of Andrew Oldham Orchestra's recording of "The Last Time," itself a rendition of The Rolling Stones song of the same name.
mxALP TIL Francis Crick who won the Nobel Prize for discovering the structure of DNA was under the influence of LSD when he first made the discovery.