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TIL the only two fictional characters to ever get a real obituary published in a newspaper were Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot in 1975 and Vince Gilligan's Breaking Bad creation Walter White in 2013

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168Od TIL in 2015, a man in Georgia tried to shoot an armadillo, but the bullet ricocheted off its shell and hit his mother-in-law, injuring her.
RQb6 TIL Doc Holliday’s last words were “This is funny”. He always figured he would be killed someday with his boots on and was looking at his bootless feet, amused, while a nurse attended to him and denied his request for a shot of whisky.
78LyM TIL that fish eggs can survive after passing through a waterfowl's digestive system. This provides a good explanation of how fish can populate closed bodies of water like lakes
YGrd TIL there is a building in Tokyo built in 1972, whose rooms consist of tiny 90 square foot capsule apartments that can be individually replaced like lego pieces.
YplLx TIL that New Zealand's most decorated battalion in WW2 is the 28th, or the Māori Battalion. They were renowned for their fierce fighting spirit and extreme bravery, such that Rommel is even rumored to have said: "Give me the Maori Battalion and I will conquer the world".