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l7jo5 TIL that the autopsy concluded that Layne Staley (Alice in Chains vocalist) died two weeks before his body was found, on April 5, the same day his grunge colleague Kurt Cobain died eight years earlier.
VB1ym TIL the Dutch king, Willem-Alexander, revealed back in 2017 that he had been co-piloting KLM flights twice a month for 21 years in addition to royal duties.
LkRoQ TIL after the third time Dennis Rodmen broke his penis, the nurse who treated him threatened to sell secret photos of his broken genitalia to the National Enquirer for $25,000. Rodmen's then girlfriend dared her to do it and was never heard from again.
VBkP0 TIL Charles “Black Bart” Boles was an American outlaw who committed 28 successful stage coach robberies entirely on foot between 1875 and 1883, as he was afraid of horses. He also reportedly never once fired a weapon during his years as an outlaw.
LPPd TIL The worst Star Trek Next Generation episode is widely regarded to be “Shades of Gray”. It was a previous clip show created due to a lack of funds left over from other episodes during the second season and the writer, Maurice Hurley, refers to it as a “piece of shit”.