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TIL that Samurai Jack has a comic series continuing from where the show left off.

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j6Jwp TIL in 1923; Frank Hayes, A racing jockey was Racing the horse named sweet kiss, Had a fatal heart attack midway through the race and died. The horse and his body crossed the finish line. Making him the first and only racer to win a race after death.
M7mZW TIL in 2019 a man died less than 12 hours after eating a hot fishcake that burned his throat, causing it to swell so much that he choked to death. The doctor who performed the autopsy said the symptoms were normally seen in people involved in house fires, caused by smoke inhalation.
8aol8 TIL of a very convincing theory suggesting that declines in lead exposure and lead in gasoline among the public in the U.S. and elsewhere since the 1970s has correlated with pronounced wanes/decreases in violent crime since 1990.
KOegR TIL That while very drunk, the band Old Dominion had the idea to release their newest album again but remixed it with the only word being "meow" on each track. It's called the Meow Mix and after waking up the next day, they followed through with it.
LkOPp TIL a Cuneiform clay tablet made in 703 BC, copied from an astronomers notebook from 3100 BCE, is evidence that Sodom and Gomorrah were actually destroyed by a 1 km wide asteroid that then went on to hit Austria.