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TIL: A Yellow Fever Epidemic Killed One in Every Ten Philadelphians in 1793

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5VBYn TIL of post death erection or "angel lust". A common occurrence in deaths or executions by hanging.
x6bvo TIL There is a meteor we found that is older than Earth itself. 4.6-Billion-Year-Old Meteorite Is The Oldest Magmatic Rock Ever Found
9Y9Z7 TIL that wine merchant Bill Sokolin accidentally broke a bottle of Thomas Jefferson's wine that was valued at $519,000.
XEOPj TIL James Bond creator Ian Fleming chose the super spy's name based on the fact that he "wanted the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name I could think of."