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TIL HOFer Andre Dawson is a mortician in Southern Florida helping families through grief during the pandemic.

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4XWJ6 TIL that Marie Curie named Polonium after her native Poland
grBDy TIL of the "Wolfram Crisis" - a WW2 diplomatic conflict between Spain and Allied powers - starving Nazi military industrial complex of tungsten was so important, UK and USA had to forcefully coerce Spain to stop its exports of the metal to Germany
MEJb TIL TBS speeds up reruns of Seinfeld (and other shows) for more room to show advertisements
7rgDO TIL When Sir Richard Owen (a critic of evolution by natural selection) bought a recently discovered Archaeopteryx feather, he was embarrassed to discover it was a missing link between reptiles and birds, which contradicted his belief that God had created the species by tweaking 'archetypes'.
vPQeL TIL of Chlorine Trifluoride which is a chemical that can burn sand. It is hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water.