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TIL that Baboon Mothers Carry Their Dead Infant Up To 10 days

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X0Ogr TIL Doc Martens is named after Klaus Martens, a doctor in the German Army during WWII.
QJ5GE TIL that in 1987 Matthew Broderick was driving in Ireland in a rental car when he veered onto the wrong side of the road, striking the vehicle of Anna Gallagher, 28 and her mother Margaret Doherty, 63 killing both. His punishment was an $175 fine.
b6G9 TIL that more than 80 percent of the Earth’s natural forests have already been destroyed
b6jNa TIL the lyrics for "Duel of Fates" in Star Wars are from a Welch poem. The poem is about a magician who animates trees into an army.
Lkebr TIL of the Wanggongchang explosion in 17th century China. It killed 20,000 people, released roughly the same amount of energy as the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, and contributed to the eventual fall of the Ming dynasty.