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TIL terminal patients may exhibit a burst of energy and lucidity near death, it is known as Terminal Lucidity.

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69GYm TIL after its initial discovery and isolation in London in 1928, penicillin was first mass-produced in 1942 using mould from a cantaloupe in a market in Peoria, Illinois. Just in time to prepare for the June 1944 WWII Allied invasion at Normandy.
yQAne TIL Marc Benioff, an American Internet entrepreneur with a net worth of $6.9 billion, created the 1-1-1 model of integrated corporate philanthropy, by which companies contribute 1 percent of equity, 1 percent of employee hours, and 1 percent of product back to the community.
wEVE TIL Otto Von Bismarck predicted the start of World war I with quote “One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).”
aJ1M TIL that the Bahá'í Faith is a religion that focuses on unity of all humankind and sees diversity in race and culture as something worthy of appreciation, that all religions believe in the same one God, but each divine prophet (Jesus, Buddha, Moses…) made a religion best suited to its people
X00Jk TIL A Stunt Pilot Died Filming 'Top Gun' [1986] in the Same Flat Spin That Almost Killed Maverick