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TIL that signer of USA constitution, Gouverneur Morris, died from sticking a whalebone in his urethra.

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0LWN TIL that the first Sherlock Holmes book “A Study in Scarlet” was the first work of fiction to mention a magnifying glass being used as an investigative tool and is the reason we still connect this item with detectives today
Raj TIL Starship Troopers is the only science fiction novel recommended by three of the five branches of the US military.
ba59 TIL of the D-Day(June 6) Crossword Panic of 1944 in which, in the 35 days before the invasion, 5 obscure, top-secret code words appeared in the Daily Telegraph puzzles..The words ‘Utah, Omaha, Overlord, Mulberry and Neptune’ triggered a MI5 investigation.
ANkQB TIL A $250,000 diamond placed on the nose of an F1 car was lost in a crash in the 2004 Monaco GP. It's still missing today.
7arx TIL Pixar flew a rep out to a 10 year-old girl’s home with a DVD copy of ‘Up’ before it was released because it was her dying wish to see the film. She died 7 hours later.