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TIL residents of Pompeii almost all died instantly from extreme heat rather than from suffocation fire to ash/toxic gases

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JAAj TIL the Japanese school year is 11 months long and is 6 days a week, and students do chores
WB4X TIL that there is a Patron Saint of the Internet
BOKb TIL the Executive Producer of Cops bought the Bad Boys theme song from Inner Circle for $2,500.
R7PD8 TIL in 1740, a mother, annoyed that her son would play immature pranks on people wrote “All his talents lie in things only natural in boys of fifteen years old, and he is about two and fifty; to get people into his garden and wet them, and put things in their beds to make them itch”
N78yP TIL about Richard Passman, an engineer who worked on the Corona, the spy satellite that informed the U.S. of Russian nuclear power. He died of Corona.