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QJ0k6 TIL that William Morris, famous for the arts and crafts movement in decor, manufactured wallpaper containing arsenic and dismissed anu claims that arsenic made people ill. He was also the owner of a major arsenic manufacturing plant.
VMAwm TIL that Alan Moore and other people who have written for the character have claimed to have met John Constantine in real life
VLd4 TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger once went to military prison because he went AWOL in order to compete in Junior Mr. Europe.
6bm8 TIL the highest paid across all U.S. Department of Defense employees are three football coaches of the service branch teams
Wyd4 TIL that Deaf people experience a “tip of the fingers” phenomenon in sign language, just as hearing persons describe a word being on the “tip of their tongue”