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TIL you can in fact die of a ‘broken heart.’

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D14Ar TIL Boston Red Sox OF Mookie Betts bowled a perfect 300 at the World Series of Bowling - in the same week he was awarded an MLB Gold Glove.
dDwEr TIL in 1913 the US government held a 50th anniversary Gettysburg reunion for veterans from the Union and Confederacy and the 2 sides treated each other as brothers and not former enemies.
nWeYo TIL that American Sign Language (ASL) has drawn significantly on Plains Indigenous Sign Language (PISL) a one-time common language of Native Americans of the Central and Midwestern US.
QNGae TIL 3 people were walking back from Yellowstone in the dark when they accidentally walked into a pool of extremely hot water, killing the young woman of the group
R7XAa TIL that when Nichelle Nichols read for the part of a communications officer in 'Star Trek', she had a copy of Robert Ruark's 'Uhuru' with her. 'Uhuru' is Swahili for 'freedom', and when Gene Roddenberry heard what the word meant, he changed the character's name to 'Uhura'.