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TIL that Pablo Neruda (the Nobel winning poet laureate) who died 12 days after Pinochet's successful coup in 1973. This week, a new toxicological report confirmed his poisoning, finding traces of Clostridium Botulinum, a neurotoxin that paralyzes the muscles and the nervous system leading to death.

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16Rb8 TIL Astronaut Ronald Evans holds the record of more time in lunar orbit than anyone else in the world: 147 hours, 48 minutes. Evans had to perform a space walk on the trip home from the Moon in order to retrieve three camera cassettes outside the spacecraft
kJY9m TIL Fred Astair, who danced his butt off at The 1970 Oscars, was born in 1899
ANke7 TIL that a Sudanese man was forced to marry a goat in 2005, after he was caught having sexual activity with it
rNAOM TIL : The most powerful commercial radio station ever was WLW (700KHz AM), which during certain times in the 1930s broadcasted 500kW radiated power. At night, it covered half the globe. Neighbors within the vicinity of the transmitter heard the audio in their pots, pans, and mattresses.
9wLAQ TIL: Lawyer Andrew G. Haley was the world's first practitioner of Space Law. He was was pivotal in founding the International Institute of Space Law which provides guidelines on how the law should apply to space and extraterrestrial beings. He died in 1966, 3 years before the moon landing.