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TIL that a handful of people survived the mass suicide at Jonestown in 1978 where over 900 people took their lives, including a hearing-impaired man that didn’t hear the announcements over loudspeaker, and an elderly woman who slept through the whole thing.

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ADjlx TIL about Izumi Sakai, the vocalist and de facto leader of the J-Pop band Zard. After she died from an accident while undergoing treatment for cancer, a posthumous single was released and used as a theme song for her favorite anime Detective Conan
pp48 TIL of the high pitched voice theory of the Neanderthal, that because of the shape of their vocal chords, size of their head and rib cage, it’s likely Neanderthals would have had a very loud, high pitches voices.
P1P7G TIL Fastball's one hit wonder "The Way" in 1998 was inspired by an elderly Texas couple in declining health who got lost on a 15 minute drive to a nearby annual festival. They disappeared and were ultimately found deceased in Arkansas, hundreds of miles away
ddAj TIL of Rosemary Kennedy, sister of JFK, whose mental capacity was reduced to that of a two year old child and became incontinent after a lobotomy was performed on her without her mother’s permission
9Y7BD TIL that in 1995, scientists pointed the Hubble Space Telescope on the emptiest part of the sky they could find and left it for 10 days, letting light accumulate until incredibly faint objects could be detected. It resulted in an image of about 3000 galaxies. This is the Hubble Deep Field.