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TIL Carrie Fisher's ashes are contained inside a giant novelty Prozac pill

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kJwvg TIL that in 1866, one year after the end of the Civil War, 1/5th of the state budget of Mississippi was spent on artificial limbs.
P1aYG TIL of the K-ships -- a class of armed blimps used by the US Navy during WW2 for anti-submarine warfare operations against German U-boats. Only one K-ship was lost due to enemy action when the K-74 was shot down by machine gun fire from the submarine U-134 on the night of the 18th of July 1943
rRvr1 TIL A US Senator realized that the English translation of Mein Kampf left out a lot of the most hateful ideologies of Hitler and made him seem more sympathetic. So the Senator wrote his own TL:DR of the book so Americans would know how evil Hitler was.
nWBAG TIL over 200 vehicles were involved in the scramble scene from the film 2 Fast 2 Furious
nWBOG TIL a Cambridge study shows that in 57 countries women on average display more empathy than men. In no countries studied did men have greater empathy