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TIL only 4% of people are born on the due date

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KOQE6 TIL London literally had a “train of the dead”. Called the London Necropolis Railway, the company and train line were formed to transport London’s freshly deceased (as well as living mourners) to Brookwood Cemetary, 23 miles away
KO8VB TIL tibetans have more than twice the amount of forearm blood flow due to sharing more than 6% of their genes from Denisova hominins
7r7DO TIL Dr Szent-Györgyi, a Hungarian biochemist, lived a full life: shot himself to get out of WW1, got the Nobel prize for isolating vitamin C, had an arrest warrant personally issued by Hitler (for secretly negotiating with the Allies), escaped and hid from the Gestapo for 2 years, and had 4 wives.
4XRX6 TIL Actor Anthony Hopkins is autistic; he was not diagnosed until the age of 70.
0xv1 TIL: On August 13, 1966, in response to John Lennon’s “More popular than Jesus” comment, a radio station in Texas held a burning of Beatles merchandise. The next day, the broadcast tower was struck by lightning, damaging much of their equipment and sending the news director to the hospital.