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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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XE0ND TIL: Within a split second, the human nose modifies the moisture of inhaled air to a constant relative humidity of 75%, and the temperature to a constant of 98.6F (even if the air is 40F or 100F)
Bgamb TIL that when a metaphor stops needing its imagery to be understood and becomes idiomatic ("footage", "fly off the handle", "blow off steam"), it is considered "dead".
MerA0 TIL - From 1900s - 1970s, the gay community of England sometimes communicated through a language called Polari, to protect themselves in a land in which homosexuality was illegal.
p88re TIL There is a Disney character that is not in any movie or TV show and can only be found in Disney World in Florida. The Orange Bird, a character that came through a partnership with Disney and the Florida Citrus Commission.
AEmx TIL Kodak had weapons grade uranium in their Rochester Labs until 2007