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TIL on his deathbed, Walt Disney scrawled his final words on a piece of paper: "Kurt Russell"

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v1GvR TIL about Catherine Marie Kerkow, a woman who has been on the run from the FBI and Interpol for the last 44 years. The longest tenured female fugitive ever who is believed to be alive and well.
j6e6X TIL: The first synthetic dye of the color fuchsia was originally named after a botanist (Fuchs) but renamed Magenta to celebrate a battle victory.
oRWmA TIL St. Valentine is also the patron saint of epilepsy.
Bg15e TIL Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira wanted to have a perfect daughter. Her daughter Hildegart read at 2, spoke 4 languages at 8, joined law school at 13, becoming professor there at 18, writing on socialism and sexuality, writing to figures. On 1933 her mother shot her
vyjR TIL the CEO of Susan G. Komen for the Cure had a salary of $459,406 in 2010.