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TIL If a Google Employee dies, their spouse gets half pay for 10 years

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9YWpm TIL The car Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in bore the license plate number "A 111 118." This is number coincidentally corresponds with 11-11-18, the end date of WW1 (Armistice Day).
R8p8 TIL the popular knock pattern, 5 knocks/pause/2 knocks, is called “Shave and a Haircut … Two Bits” and that the tune is highly offensive in Mexico.
R5Vol TIL MLB Legend Ted Williams was “frozen cryonically” after his death in a process called neuropreservation
W74P9 TIL that only 48.5% of adults reported reading at least one book in the past year, down from 52.7% five years earlier and 54.6% ten years prior.
XEEGQ TIL Yolanda Saldivar, infamous for murdering Selena, has served everyday since her sentence in isolation, due to death threats and bounties from prison gangs and the mexican mafia.