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TIL that Winston Churchill nearly died after being struck by a car while looking the wrong way crossing New York's Fifth Avenue in 1931.

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5YwEk TIL The Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II was issued a passport by the modern Egyptian government in order to have his mummified body sent to France for examination, as traveling humans no matter alive or deceased, are required by Egyptian law to have a passport in order to leave the country
XEj0R TIL feedback loops in Systems Theory. An example of feeback loops are birth rates( a reinforcing loop) and death rate( a balancing loop) all of which act on a giving population. Reinforcing loops enhance what is already existent( like a good investment) and balancing loops level things out.
Q9Gd TIL in 2012, former Marine and game developer Amir Hekmati was sentenced to death in Iran for a video game called Kuma/War. His execution was overturned, but he remains in prison today.
8eYZ4 TIL Roman Emperor Diocletian was the first to voluntarily retire in 305 AD to grow cabbages. When begged to return to power, he declined, saying "If you could see the vegetables I grow with my own hands, you wouldn’t talk to me about empire." He lived out his days gardening by the Dalmatian coast
8eLea TIL about Amy Carlson, a woman who claimed to be God. She also claimed she was Cleopatra , Jesus, and Harriet Tubman in past lives and communed with a council of aliens made up of celebrities like Robin Williams, Tupac, Chris Farley, and Carol Burnett. She died in 2021.