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TIL The backstory of Casper the Friendly Ghost is that he was a young adolescent who went sledding all day and died of pneumonia.

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XYJ8 TIL that there’s a strong correlation between people who buy bird seed and people who usually pay their debts. Inversely, people who buy chrome accessories for their car tend to not pay their debts in full.
lJer TIL that in 1933 a German scientist named a species of blind cave beetle after the new chancellor Adolf Hitler.
OpDe TIL that during WWII, a Polish Catholic social worker named Irena Sendlerowa saved 2,500 Jewish children from death. That’s more than the 1,200 saved by Oscar Schindler. She was recognized by Yad Vashem in 1965 as one of the Righteous Among Nations (a non-Jew who saved Jews during the Holocaust).
jjop TIL US Marine Jack Lucas survived and earned the Medal of Honor by pulling two live grenades under his body during Iwo Jima. Later, he joined the airborne and survived a training jump when both parachutes failed to deploy.
6EAOQ TIL Between 100,000 and 200,000 people lived in Teotihuacan around 600 A.D., making it one of the world’s largest cities, filled with single- and multifloor apartment compounds. The ethnic identity of Teotihuacan’s inhabitants is not known and no writing system has been discovered there