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TIL that for $12,500 (slightly more than average funeral costs) you can have your remains launched into deep space

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Y7eYP TIL scientists in 2002 reconstructed and synthesized a visual pigment gene present in the last common ancestor of birds and crocodiles (archosaurs).
DQQWj TIL King John of England deposited the crown jewels with the Knights Templar in London when he was in trouble before the Magna Carta. They were providing the world’s first international banking company.
yVMAe TIL Miami Beach used to be an overwhelmingly Jewish community
XEdAR TIL that in the weeks following the 2001 September 11 attacks the children's act The Wiggles were one of the only groups that would perform in New York, which earned them loyalty and respect, as many acts cancelled.
x67ww TIL that in 1916, German spies sabotaged a US munitions plant in NYC resulting in one of the largest artificial non-nuclear explosions in history that caused 530 million in property damage, including damaging the Statue of Liberty, and was felt as far away as Philadelphia.