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TIL a Shopping Mall in Rhode Island was Partially Converted Into Apartments

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v1jwK TIL 6th grade student Hunter Scott did a research project on the USS Indianapolis in 1997 which eventually led to the exoneration of Captain Charles B McVay, who had widely been held responsible for the sinking of the ship in 1945 by Japanese forces. McVay committed suicide in 1968.
p8WnG TIL that Anna Bågenholm, who had one of the lowest survived body temperatures ever recorded in a human at 56.7 °F, avoided permanent brain damage because her brain was so cold when her heart stopped that her brain cells needed very little oxygen. Thus, her brain survived for a prolonged time.
jm6v TIL Katherine Hepburn only drank water throughout The African Queen production as a protest of Humphrey Bogart’s alcoholism. However, most of the cast and crew became sick from the water and only Bogart was unaffected because he only drank whiskey. Thank you r/movies
X0ZMR Today I learned $700 epipens which expire every year, are still good two years after their expiration date
nYA9 TIL that Michel Siffre, a French scientist, contributed to the understanding of the endogenous biological clock, also called circadian clock, by staying two months cloistered in the abyss of Scarasson without time cues on a glacier from July 1962.