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TIL ‘Double Rainbow Guy' Paul Vasquez has died :(

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LkD89 TIL that Rene Auberjonois, who played Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space 9, is the fourth great nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte
9eo6 TIL the expiration date on bottled water is for the bottle, not the water.
worxM TIL the The Mission: Impossible theme song doubles as a spy code, because the music mirrors the Morse Code for M (dash dash) I (dot dot)
9wp7p TIL Archimedes is recorded to have died in a math related killing. The most common story is that he was too busy solving a math problem to follow orders from Roman soldiers and was killed, or that he was found with scientific instruments that were mistaken as valuables and killed for them.
W77WA TIL in 2002 while on holiday, Paleontologist Gerard Gierlinski accidentally stumbled upon what are thought to be the oldest human-like footprints ever discovered, dating to around 5.6 million years ago