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TIL 12 years old, Johnny Cash saw his own brother mortally wounded by a mill saw. He died a week later.

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yQp9w TIL lyricist Lorenz Hart, who wrote many famous hits including Blue Moon ,The Lady Is a tramp, and My Funny Valentine, hated himself & died of pneumonia from exposure in 1943, after drinking heavily
p8YPe TIL that Nike lost the renewal of their shoe contract with Stephan Curry because they continually mispronounced his name during the sales pitch and because they used the same slide show with Curry as they did with Kevin Durant, but left Durant's name in the slideshow instead of putting Curry's.
7GlL TIL in 2011 two men not only climbed Everest but paraglided from its peak, then hiked and kayaked through some of the world’s most unforgiving territory to reach India’s Bay of Bengal in a trial that has been dubbed “The Ultimate Descent.”
QJepX TIL that Angela Morley, the first openly transgender woman to be nominated for an Academy Award, was John Williams’ primary orchestrator throughout the 1970s and 1980s. She helped write and arrange the scores for Star Wars, ET, The Empire Strikes Back, Home Alone, Superman, and Schindler’s List.
16n07 TIL that a school principal once made a student who'd gotten into trouble sit in the basement & read the U.S. Constitution as punishment. That student (who committed the Constitution to memory as a result) was Thurgood Marshall, who went on to become the first Black Supreme Court justice.