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TIL the creator of spongebob is dying of ALS

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W7wJo TIL of Luciano Re Cecconi, an Italian football legend, who died in 1977 while pulling a prank on a friend's jewelry store posing as robbers. As the store had actually been robbed, the scared owner shot Cecconi dead. His last words were "It's just a joke! It's just a joke!"
KOJ49 TIL: Plato's real name was Aristocles, and that 'Plato' was a nickname (roughly 'the broad') derived either from the width of his shoulders, the results of training for wrestling, or from the breadth of his style, or from the size of his forehead.
oReKR TIL Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's final task on the moon was to leave a small package of memorial items to Soviet cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin and Vladimir Komarov, and Apollo 1 astronauts Grissom, White and Chaffee.
oRKo8 TIL despite the "Florence Nightingale Effect" being named for the English nurse, there are no records of her ever falling in love with a patient. The "syndrome" borrows her name because of her famous compassion and tenderness for her patients
nlQP TIL The more educated a woman is, the more likely she is to drink heavily and report drinking problems.