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TIL: Late musician Kemistry is one of only two recorded deaths from a damaged/dislodged cat's eye (retroreflective safety device) ever.

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Eppw TIL in Super Mario Bros., the Hammer Bros. eventually chase Mario if he stands still long enough
VBjOk TIL about Timber Dick, a Denver based Inventor who passed away in 2008, was roommate to former ambassador to Denmark Dick Swett and was survived by 11 children
KOR74 TIL That during the 50s the Canadian Broadcasting Company Was a Supporter of PoC In The TV Industry. They Gave Sammy Davis Jr. a Half Hour Special to Launch the Show Parade When The Majority of US Stations Wouldn’t
loBka TIL that only female Anglerfish have lures and actively look for food. The males are tiny and pale and spend their entire life finding and fusing to female Anglers, where they begin to degenerate until they are little more than a pair of gonads providing sperm to the female on her command.
X00EX TIL Roger Bacon who lived from around 1214 to 1292. In his Epistola de Secretis Operibus, he wrote: “Cars can be made so that without animals they will move with unbelievable rapidity,” and “flying machines can be constructed by which artificial wings are made to beat the air like a flying bird.”