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TIL If you die in Amsterdam with no next of kin and no-one to attend your funeral, a poet will write a poem for you and recite it at your funeral

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WpJ4 TIL that at age 9, Ron McNair, the African-American astronaut later killed in the Challenger explosion in 1986, refused to leave a segregated public library after the librarian rejected his request to check out some books. The police were called, as was his mother.
jNjNQ TIL It cost more to make the movie Titanic ($200m) than to build the actual Titanic ($7.5m, or $125m when adjusted for inflation).
9YeQ7 TIL Austria does not usually allow dual citizenship but they made a special exception for Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1983 when he became U.S. citizen
Are7 TIL that domestic cats are responsible for the extinction or near extinction of dozens of species.
Br1Le TIL megachurch pastor Ed Young drove a Ferrari 458 Italia on stage during service, parked it, got out, and said: “God gave me a Ferrari because I AM a Ferrari.”