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TIL Legendary distiller Jack Daniels’ last words were “One last drink, please.”

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NMbe TIL Russell Brand takes out homeless people for meals, just talks to them and tries to help them out.
nPdW TIL that the false-consensus effect or false-consensus bias is an attributional type of cognitive bias whereby people tend to overestimate the extent to which their opinions, beliefs, preferences, values, and habits are normal and typical of those of others
ZpP0a TIL that in 1896 an outdated suspension bridge over the Niagara River was replaced by constructing an arch directly around and underneath it, without interrupting bridge traffic
b6lej TIL: Horseshoe crabs have 10 eyes scattered across their head and tail, some of which are significantly different in function from one another.
D1WEg TIL after the Apollo 11 crew returned to Earth, they were quarantined for 3 weeks to prevent any possible microbes from the Moon infecting Earth. However, Buzz Aldrin saw ants crawling in and out of cracks in the concrete, meaning even smaller microbes could have gotten in and out of quarantine.