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TIL: "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" has 5 verses

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kOaOm TIL that cruise ships have morgues in them. On average, roughly 200 people die on cruise ships each year so most ships have the capacity to store up to 10 bodies at a time
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7leO TIL that Hitler’s doctor, Theodor Morell, was accused of being an allied sympathiser after it was found out that he had prescribed Hitler cocaine eyedrops, methamphetamines, and E.Coli.
DQ4pg TIL the band Grateful Dead got its name in 1965 after Jerry Garcia found the term in the Britannica World Language Dictionary along with the definition "the soul of a dead person, or his angel, showing gratitude to someone who, as an act of charity, arranged their burial".