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TIL Johnny Depp plans on having his cremated remains poured into a cask of whiskey, and requests every attendee at his funeral take a sip of it.

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epjN6 TIL about the Dionne quintuplets, the first know quintuplets to survive their infancy. At age 5, the Canadian government made them wards of the Crown. During this time they became a profitable tourist attraction. As adults, they sued the Canadian govt for exploitation, eventually settling for $4m.
v1AXB TIL: After the 2019 Notre Dame Cathedral fire, the video game Assassin’s Creed: Unity helped restoration efforts due to the highly detailed in-game model of the the Cathedral.
OWZR TIL the smell of fresh baked bread has been scientifically studied, discovering that the smell makes people more inclined to help each other
44Z5 TIL that during the first spacewalk Alexey Leonov had a suicide pill in his mouth to swallow in case he was unable to reenter the capsule forcing his comrade to abandon him in orbit
N7d6P TIL Bill Nye got his name after appearing on a show and hearing host saying “jiggawatt”. He corrected Keister on his pronunciation of the word “gigawatt”, and the nickname was born when Keister responded, “Who do you think you are—Bill Nye the Science Guy?”