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TIL Legendary author Ray Bradbury was a descendant of Mary Bradbury, who was tried in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692.

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E1wLW TIL that during World War II, George H. W. Bush’s plane was shot down over Japan. He was one of 9 men on board. The other 8 men were captured and eaten.
GAXrj TIL If you can voluntarily control your middle ear (tensor tympani) muscles to create a rumbling noise inside your head, you are extremely rare.
4k4Vw TIL That there is an underwater lake that kills almost anything that enters it (Named -> The Jacuzzi of Despair)
eg6 TIL that 2g of DNA could hold all digitally stored information in the world
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