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TIL: “Good-bye” is a contraction of “God be with ye”

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Wkvk4 TIL of Episcopal civil rights martyr Jonathan Myrick Daniels. Daniels was murdered by a shotgun-wielding county deputy named Tom Coleman in Hayneville, Alabama, while in the act of shielding 17-year-old Ruby Sales. He saved the life of the young Black civil rights activist.
QNkQk TIL: The famous piano coda on Layla by Derek & The Dominos was plagiarized
7rJ1X TIL that actor Vic Morrow was killed when he was crushed by a crashing helicopter while filming the “A Quality of Mercy” segment of Twilight Zone: The Movie.
NXwJ6 TIL the photo of Salvador Dalí jumping and painting while water and live cats fly through the air took 5 hours and 26 tries because they couldn't get the timing right. The "floating" objects hung from wires or were held up off-camera. Dalí’s canvas frame was empty in the pic; he painted it in later.
Legp TIL Michigan State University will identify any insect, arthropod, plant, or weed for free if you send a picture of the specimen via email.