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TIL Jon Lovitz blames Andy Dick for causing Phil Hartman’s wife to relapse after a decade of sobriety of cocaine which led to a downward spiral leading to killing herself and her husband.

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x6101 TIL Between 43 and 42 BC, a commemorative coin was produced to celebrate the assassination of Julius Caesar on March 15th, 44 BC. Marcus Brutus is minted on the heads side, while the tails side has a pileus cap between two daggers.
Egk10 TIL the small white flowers along roadsides in the UK is called Danish Scurvy Grass, a coastal plant that thrives in the central reservation due to winter road salt accumulation.
5Yd4Q TIL the famous inventor Nikola Tesla became interested in electricity after his cat gave him an electric shock
bwK4 TIL that we still do not know how to define death. These “beating heart corpses” can urinate; their bodies rumble, their wounds heal; they can blush and sweat, & can even have babies. Yet, clinically, they are dead. One method to determine death has won a Nobel prize
OoQJ4 TIL Jonah Hill was hospitalized while filming Wolf of Wall Street from snorting too much fake cocaine