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TIL in 2011, NYPD officer Patrick Luca was in a kayaking accident with his son Caden, 5. Caden had a life jacket, but Patrick didn’t. His last words were, “Keep blowing that whistle until someone finds you. Daddy is going to go under water now, and not come back up. Daddy is going to heaven.”

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m1a6y TIL of a Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement fighting for nation sovereignty. Some independence groups are asking for compensation for the overthrow of the Hawaiian Queen and subsequent military occupation.
Z8NPG TIL, by Washington's first inauguration, he only had a single remaining tooth to which awkward dentures were attached. As he aged, people mistook his increasing lack of conversation as him being distant and unfriendly when, in reality, he was simply trying to keep his dentures from falling out
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