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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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ADOMw TIL that English king Charles I believed black cats to bring good luck, so he adopted one. On the day it had died, he lamented that his good luck was gone. The next day, he was arrested for high treason and was later executed.
R7yD7 TIL that a person's ability for spacial and verbal memory can be affected by which nostril is used: left, right, or alternate nostril breathing
ZpYOp TIL that in the 1980s one of the propellers salvaged from the wreck of the Lusitania was melted down to make golf clubs.
QNN0E TIL that the finish military had a swastika as their logo up to 2020 when pressure made them reconsider the logo
QJegp TIL Oprah wasn't always Oprah: Her birth name was Orpah Gail Winfrey, but people didn't know how to spell or pronounce Orpah, so they switched the p before the r and the name stuck