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TIL that Texas scrapped the last meal tradition for condemned inmates after one of James Byrd Jr's killers died without having touched his enormous request

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gMB9D Today I learned that an advanced civilization called the Cahokia once existed along the Mississippi and Ohio rivers in the modern day United States
Aykg TIL in 1945, Army photography David Conover saw a young woman on the Radioplane assembly line whom he thought had potential as a model. He photographed her working on the OQ-3 model, which led to a screen test for the woman, who soon changed her name to Marilyn Monroe.
WLGL TIL that the CEO of Olympus was fired when he discovered that $1.6billion of the company’s money had been paid to the yakuza.
0w5VA TIL the word “Deli” is actually an abbreviation for delicatessen; which is a loanword from German, which gets its roots from French, which gets its roots from Italian, and which finally originated from a Latin word.
Yo5W TIL If a pregnant mother suffers organ damage during the pregnancy the fetus can send stem cells to help repair the damage