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TIL During the French Revolution someone promised to keep blinking as long as he could after he was beheaded as an experiment. A friend watched. It took about 15-seconds before he stopped.

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aZLo TIL The Simpsons released an album in 1990 and the lead single “Do the Bartman” was a worldwide hit. It was co-produced by Michael Jackson, who also provided background vocals and was a huge fan of the show. Following his death FOX played the video before an episode as a tribute to Michael.
1axGO TIL Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Mario and Zelda, came up with the idea of Pikmin when gardening. He saw a line of ants carrying leaves towards their nest and wondered what the scene would look like if they were tiny people instead.
R5b94 TIL that the 1918 Flu was definitively connected to Influenza virus using a remarkably preserved body in Alaska, that still had remnants of Flu RNA which was sequenced and recreated.
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Oo4V7 TIL the pages of Finland's passport make a flipbook of a moose walking