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TIL in Venezuela in 2007, a man woke up during his autopsy

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QOGe TIL that after giving birth, 50-75% of women carry fetal cells that persist for decades, becoming a part of the mother’s heart, brain, and blood. Mothers can transfer these cells to subsequent children.
lo6y7 TIL that Congressman Leo Ryan, who was murdered while investigating Jonestown in 1978, had a record of directly looking into his constituents' concerns. As an assemblyman, he investigated the conditions of California prisons in 1970 by using a pseudonym to enter Folsom Prison as an inmate.
oRjRA TIL that by the year 40,272 AD, Voyager 1 will actually be closer to a different star, Gliese 445, than it will be to our very own Sun.
M7PGb TIL that when Louis XVI was executed in 1793 during the French Revolution, his severed head was paraded around for the crowd and was met with exclamations of "Vive la Republique!"
5V5e9 TIL Whitney Houston had a production company called BrownHouse, which produced films like The Princess Diaries and The Cheetah Girls