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TIL just 12 days before he died of a drug overdose, Mitch Hedberg went on the Howard Stern show and said, 'I got the drugs under control now,' and that he only used them for the 'creative side of it'.

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oRxJo TIL: The Sea Peoples were a confederacy of naval raiders who harried the coastal towns and cities of the Mediterranean region between c. 1276-1178 BCE
rN4n1 TIL of Truganini, who was long considered to have been the last full-blooded Tasmanian Aborigine, and who lived and died during the brutal colonisation of her land. Her dying wish for her ashes to be scattered in the D'Entrecasteaux Channel was finally honoured in 1976, 100 years after her death.
abnA TIL that the brain receives 20% of the body’s total oxygen consumption, despite only representing 2% of the body’s total weight
6EnG7 TIL that according to an APA research, there is an evidence to conclude that sexualization of young girls has negative effects in a variety of domains, including cognitive functioning, physical and mental health, and healthy sexual development.
b9MyZ TIL the most expensive "vegetables" are hop shoots, costing up to €1,000 a kilo, which require manual harvesting and are only harvested in Belgium and the Netherlands