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22 June 2026 01:49

TIL the biggest ever 'last meal' had 29,000 calories and was ordered by murderer Gary Carl Simmons Jr. in 2012. It consisted of several menu items from both Pizza Hut and McDonald's. He ate about half of the meal and sampled everything except an order of fries. [Source]

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22 June 2026 00:49

TIL that towards the end of his life Elvis Presley suffered from chronic constipation after years of prescription drug abuse and when he died straining on the toilet in 1977, his body was discovered in a stage of purple discoloration and he was lying face down in a pool of his own vomit [Source]

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21 June 2026 23:49

TIL that Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) was an avid guitarist, and a collection of his personal guitars was discovered after his death. [Source]

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21 June 2026 21:49

TIL that on May 21, 1946, 28-year-old Primula Rollo Niven- wife of actor David Niven- died while playing a game of hide-and-seek at the Beverly Hills home of actors Tyrone Power and Annabella. She had walked through a door believing it to be a closet, but it led to a stone staircase to the basement. [Source]

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21 June 2026 20:49

TIL the FBI secretly operated an encrypted phone company (ANOM) for ~3 years — criminals paid ~$2,000/year and messages were copied to law enforcement in real time (Operation Trojan Shield, June 2021) [Source]

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21 June 2026 19:49

TIL that your brain can change itself, reorganize and form new connections throughout life. This ability is called neuroplasticity. And that's why you learn skills and adapt [Source]

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21 June 2026 17:49

TIL the oldest wooden wheel is over 5,000 years old. The Ljubljana Marshes Wheel was discovered in Slovenia in 2002. [Source]

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21 June 2026 16:49

TIL on April 6, 2026, the Artemis II mission officially broke a 56-year-old record by traveling 252,760 miles from Earth! Making its four crew members the humans who have traveled the furthest into space in history. [Source]

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21 June 2026 13:49

TIL Drug sniffing dogs are significantly influenced by handler beliefs and biases, and not extremely reliable [Source]

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21 June 2026 08:49

TIL Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst is a military veteran, having served in the United States Navy for two years [Source]

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21 June 2026 05:49

TIL Paul Marie Bonaparte, the nephew of Napoleon, secretly abandoned his studies in Bologna when he was 18, in order to take part in the Greek War of Independence. He accidentally died by mortally wounding himself while cleaning his own gun. [Source]

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21 June 2026 02:49

TIL that Robert Toombs was the favorite to become the first president of the Confederate States of America, but a night of drunkedness at a party destroyed his chances. [Source]

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21 June 2026 00:49

TIL The NFL is the only of the Big Four American sports organizations that did not have a color barrier or segregation in the beginning however 13 years after its formation in 1933 it made a secret rule to ban black players that lasted 13 years [Source]

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20 June 2026 21:49

TIL that the Columbine shooters, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, reportedly discussed hijacking an Airplane and crashing it into New York City if they survived their attack. [Source]

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20 June 2026 20:49

TIL Because polar bears are so common in Churchill, Manitoba, it's customary for people to leave their car doors unlocked in case someone fleeing from a polar bear needs to use it. [Source]

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22 June 2026 00:49

TIL that only 10-12% of the world are left handed [Source]

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21 June 2026 23:49

TIL that the Slovenian Air Force doesn't operate any jet engine military aircraft [Source]

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21 June 2026 22:49

TIL a localized brown bear population in Italy had its most aggressive individuals slowly killed off over thousands of years, resulting in genetic changes that reduced their predisposition to violence and led to less conflict with humans. [Source]

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21 June 2026 21:49

TIL: Winnie the Pooh is named after A. A Milne's son's teddy bear which was named after a Canadian black bear in the London Zoo. The bear was named Winnie after Winnipeg, the hometown of the hunter who captured the bear. [Source]

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21 June 2026 19:49

TIL that one of England's best documented witchcraft trials was part of a family feud that began when the accuser's father killed two brothers during a football game [Source]

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21 June 2026 18:49

TIL Derick Hall, a linebacker for the Seattle Seahawks and superbowl winner (6'3”, 260lbs) was born four months premature and had a 1% chance of survival. He now runs a foundation that supports premature babies. [Source]

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21 June 2026 17:49

TIL that behind its cheerful appearance, the wild sunflower acts as an aggressive competitor that practices "allelopathy"—it releases toxic chemicals into the soil to stunt and kill neighboring plants to steal their resources. [Source]

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21 June 2026 13:49

TIL, following the death of a customer in 2016 and another customer in 2017 due to food allergies, UK sandwich shop chain Pret A Manger began a national rollout in 2019 to put full lists of ingredients on its freshly made products. [Source]

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21 June 2026 11:49

TIL : In 1982 Larry Joltin sold $424,848 (up from $360K in 1981) worth of shoes in a town of just 22K despite taking a month off for vacation. He memorized the entire warehouse, served 5 people at once, personally delivered shoes to customers, and absolutely refused to sell shoes that did not fit. [Source]

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21 June 2026 08:49

TIL that Indian households hold 4x more gold than U.S. government reserves [Source]

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21 June 2026 04:49

TIL Bamboo is very invasive and can spread aggressively underground and grow away from the parent plant [Source]

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21 June 2026 01:49

TIL the majority of the oxygen we breathe comes from photosynthesizers in the ocean, not from trees [Source]

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21 June 2026 00:49

TIL Lovell Rousseau, the senator who broke his cane using it to assault a fellow senator, was censured for the attack and then immediately resigned in protest. He was promptly re-elected to fill the opening left by his own resignation [Source]

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20 June 2026 21:49

TIL a "clinically dead" frozen man, who was believed to have been drunk from a vodka binge, was brought back to life after he fell asleep on a bench in the world's coldest inhabited region in remote Siberia for more than 5 hours in temperatures as low as -20°C (-4°F). He was discharged after 5 days. [Source]

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20 June 2026 20:49

TIL Mourning Geckos are a species of Lizard that evolved the ability to clone themselves to reproduce in a process called “Parthenogenesis” making them a fully female species. [Source]