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TIL the same person, Desmond Henley, embalmed King George VI, Queen Mary, Judy Garland, Jimi Hendrix and Bon Scott

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ZpJD4 TIL: in 1919, famous eugenicist Charles Davenport published a study claiming that being a sea captain (thalassophilia - "love of the sea") was a recessive sex-linked genetic trait because it appeared only in males and could skip generations. He dismissed all criticism as “uninformed.”
9eJp TIL that in San Jose, Costa Rica, you are allowed to drive only 6 days a week by law. The last letter/number on your license plate corresponds to your banned day (Monday-Friday)
QJoKa TIL that in 2017, a security robot quit its job by drowning itself in a fountain
d81J9 TIL about the Sole Survivor Policy in the United States military, which protects "only sons/daughters", "the last son/daughter to carry the family name", and "sole surviving sons/daughters" only during peacetime.
gMWN8 TIL the same apple tree from which an apple fell and supposedly hit Isaac Newton, inspiring his theory of gravity, is still growing at his family home over 350 years later