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TIL North Carolina's coast is called the "Graveyard of the Atlantic" because of 5000+ wrecks

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KY6lB TIL that when Leslie Nielsen died in 2010, ESPN ran an obituary for "Enrico Pallazzo," the opera singer that Lt. Frank Drebin (Nielsen) impersonated in the first Naked Gun! movie.
VM1AQ TIL Carl Sagan wrote a peer-reviewed paper while at Stanford with a NASA grant outlining it is probable aliens have visited the earth and feasible they have impacted our civilizations.
Rnwj TIL that long nails of two NICU nurses (one with natural nails, one artificial) caused 46 pseudomonas infections in infants during a 15 month period. Sixteen babies died, at least 8 as a direct result of the infections.
8ejL TIL that in ancient Japan, buddhist monks mummified themselves by following a strict diet and drinking poisonous tea over a 10 year period. This was seen as the ultimate act of self denial.
ZNkQ TIL that there are two towers in Milan called the Bosco Verticale that are host to more than 700 trees constituting more than 90 species. The name literally means ‘Vertical Forest’