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TIL all of the drawings in Grey's Anatomy are of real people -- they were nameless and poor, coming out of the hospital mortuary or out of a workhouse where they had died. The illustrator (Henry Carter) represented them with reverence because he saw the human body as the image of God.

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nW6br TIL: In 1947 a former GI Ernie Kreiling and his wife Jean toured the French WW2 battlefields -a tour of his days of combat.
5A09 TIL a US PAN satellite was launched in September 2009 and is so top-secret that no military or governmental organization claimed to have built it.
nvkd TIL that cop-killer Philip Workman declined a last meal, instead requesting that a large vegetarian pizza be given to a homeless person in Nashville. His request was denied, but in response, people all over the state donated pizzas to homeless shelters.
rR7k1 TIL comedian Joey Diaz kidnapped a man and stole 2 kilos of cocaine from him in 1987. He was arrested for it and sentenced to prison but in 2019 that man went to a Joey Diaz show after they corresponded for 5 years and Diaz apologized for his actions.
M71Jb TIL about “Unsinkable Sam” a cat who survived the sinking of 3 famous ships: the first was the Bismarck followed by HMS Cossack then HMS Ark Royal – both of which had earlier helped to sink the Bismarck. After the Ark Royal sank, he was retired to the UK.