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TIL DNA study confirms Christopher Columbus’s remains are entombed in Seville | Spain

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OG5ra TIL in 1935, Major League Baseball player Len Koenecke was beaten to death on an airplane after trying to take control of the airplane.
LbGP TIL that in 2012, the entire village of Sodeto in Spain won the lottery… Except for one guy.
M6vV TIL firefighters in Tennessee let a house burn because the homeowners didn’t pay a “$75 fire subscription fee”
xDr0 TIL that Marie Curie and her daughter Irène between them received half of all the Physics and Chemistry Nobel Prizes awarded to women
JNQj TIL that MythBusters once fired a cannonball at a bomb disposal range…and missed. Instead, it flew over 700 yards and through a bedroom in which a family was sleeping, eventually coming to a stop in a minivan.