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TIL: Human corpses keep moving for a year after death.
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TIL in 1955, prominent physicist Qian Xuesen was deported from the United States to China under suspicions of being a communist. He would go on to help China become a nuclear power by 1964, launch a satellite by 1970 and witnessed China's first manned space mission in 2003
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TIL That actress Gates McFadden who played Dr. Beverly Crusher on "Star Trek: TNG" had been an employee of The Jim Henson Company as a Muppeteer and choreographed the classic movie Labyrinth.
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TIL the first and last British soldiers that died in WWI are, by coincidence, buried 15 feet away from each other.
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TIL that College City California does not contain a college, and has not since 1896.
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TIL That in the 1500s, Incas had cotton armor so densely woven it could repel spears and arrows almost as well as metal armor