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TIL about Lazarus Syndrome where people come back to life without assistance after attempts to resuscitate have failed

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xVEYw TIL Robert Reed, the father from The Brady Bunch, was gay but never came out publicly in fear of ruining his career and the show
xVvO1 TIL that the last French casualty of WWI, Augustin Trébuchon, was killed 15 minutes before the ceasefire at 11 o'clock in an attempt to tell his fellow soldiers that hot soup would be served after the armistice took effect.
PYV1V TIL two weeks after South Carolina seceded from the Union New York City's Mayor proposed secession as well in order to continue its extraordinarily lucrative cotton trade with the seceded South.
D1wBj TIL: Hugh Hefner published nude pictures of Marilyn Monroe without her permission in the first edition of Playboy magazine. He later purchased the crypt besides her's even though they had never met in life.
4kPxJ TIL in the late 1970s, networks, magazines, and religious groups voiced outrage about a new ABC show, condemning it for sexuality, violence and perversion. That show was the sitcom "Soap".