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TIL a Buddhist monk who burned himself in front of the Cambodian embassy named Thich Quang Duc, when re-cremated after burning, his heart remained in tact.

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e665 TIL for upon their death, survivors of the attack on the USS Arizona during Pearl Harbor may have their ashes placed within the ship, among their fallen comrades.
yQ8JJ TIL about the NYPD's elite mobile blacksmith unit. They are responsible for the NYPD's horseshoes.
GXoJ TIL that Kim Peek, the inspiration for the movie Rain Man, was a savant born with significant brain damage who has read over 12,000 books and remembers everything he’s read in them. He reads two pages at once, one with each eye, and remembers it all.
8amwP TIL the first Reebok Pump shoes were released on November 24, 1989. That month, Dominique Wilkins introduced them to the world by pumping in a TV commercial.
GAyp7 TIL the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was awarded to the neurologist, António Egas Moniz, who invented the lobotomy. However, this highly invasive procedure is now widely considered to be one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine.