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TIL Karl Marx’s last words were “Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough!”

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Y7VYW TIL in the US, a private company can prosecute and incarcerate you themselves if they have enough money.
1aPwd TIL Japanese scientists have discovered a method to record/reconstruct your dreams by means of a Magnetic Resonance Imagining scanner (MRI)
8ayva TIL During WWII, the Amsterdam zoo hid around 250 people from the Nazis during the Nazi occupation of Holland.
JZg8 TIL the Olympic flame was transported by a radio signal from Athen to Canada in 1976.
wojg7 TIL that on 18 December 1944, Admiral Halsey’s Third Fleet encountered a powerful Pacific Typhoon east of the Philippines. Three destroyers were sunk, 146 planes destroyed, 27 ships damaged, and 790 sailors killed; it remains the worst natural disaster in U.S. Navy history.