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TIL Steve Jobs is buried in an unmarked grave

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nW5jd TIL The Village People Put out a New Romantic Album in 1980-
loAg1 TIL goldfish have a memory span of at least three months, can recognize their owners, and can be trained to do tricks. Goldfish can also see ultraviolet in addition to red, green, and blue making them tetrachromats.
QN7Rk TIL Queen Laodice IV of the Seleucid Empire married and had children with all three of her biological brothers. Her third husband/younger brother Antiochus IV Epiphanes co-ruled and later assassinated his nephew/adopted son from her second marriage
QJ0MX TIL that the last thylacine died in 1936, and, due to the fact that the zoo expected to find a replacement, they did not bother to keep records of the animal. In fact, its gender was only determined in 2011 by a team of researchers looking frame-by-frame at a video of it.
LQ1bP TIL in the late 70s, Martin Scorsese was very depressed & struggling with a dangerous coke addiction. Once, while hospitalized w/ internal bleeding, De Niro visited & convinced him to make another movie, to save his life. Scorsese agreed, sure it would be his last film. It was Raging Bull.