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TIL that when Spike Milligan died wanted to be buried in a washing machine to puzzle future archaeologists.

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LKKQ TIL that in the 1920s a Chicago man convinced his wife to pull out all her teeth then refused to get her dentures because it was ‘cheaper to feed her with soup than solid food’. She took him to court and he was ordered to get her 2 new sets of teeth and a beefsteak a week.
Eg457 TIL in 2002 Fentanyl was used to end the hostage crisis in the Moscow Theater
yGoa TIL that cosmonaut Sergei Avdeyev has traveled 0.02 seconds into the future. The theory of relativity states that time will slow down for an object as its velocity increases. By orbiting at 27,360 km/h for 747 days aboard the Mir space station, Avdeyev aged 0.02 seconds less than people on Earth.
mM7Y TIL that the whole reason we focus on presidents’ first 100 days in office so much is because of how much FDR accomplished during his.
4XbZo TIL 2015's Hurricane Patricia was the most intense hurricane on record in terms of wind speed (over 300km/h)