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TIL that sex can clear out blocked noses

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xV7D5 TIL Eugene Merle Shoemaker is the only person with remains placed on a celestial body outside Earth. On July 18, 1997 Shoemaker died in a car crash while on an expedition for crater sites in Australia. On July 31, 1999, some of his ashes were carried to the Moon by the Lunar Prospector space probe.
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g76L TIL in the early 1980s, a British MP made serious allegations of paedophilia in the British Political classes and the dossier was “lost” by the Government.
kOvE7 TIL of 'Kodokushi' or lonely death : A Japanese phenomenon of people dying and remaining undiscovered for a long period of time.
vWMB TIL that Charles Darwin’s pet tortoise Harriet died in 2006