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Today I learned of Gayle Grinds, who after being couch ridden for 6 years had become fused to the couch and died during surgery to remove it.

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GAVrg TIL that Scots law has a third verdict, “Not Proven,” where there is belief that the defendant is guilty, but the Crown has not sufficiently proven guilt. Or, as in the popular saying “Not guilty, but don’t do it again.”
a9QM TIL Sadhus, Indian holy men, renunciate this world to the point that they attend their own funeral and even the Indian government recognizes them as legally dead.
awwZ TIL The first wireless telephone was made in 1880 by Alexander Graham Bell. The sound travelled by light.
N79D8 TIL of Major Francis Harvey VC who after being mortally wounded and losing both legs during the Battle Of Jutland crawled to a voice pipe to order the burning magazine sealed and flooded, saving the HMS Lion and its 1000 sailors from being destroyed in a magazine explosion
0AKL TIL there is evidence of Methane based life on Titan, a moon of Saturn.