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TIL imitation vanilla is made out of "brown slime" that come from a beaver's anus

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y0yw TIL it’s estimated that Bing Crosby recordings filled more than half of the radio time allocated to recorded music in 1948.
P4g TIL Amelia Earhart’s body was never found because it may have been eaten by coconut crabs which then hoarded the bones in their burrows.
noYG TIL that 3 mths after Charlie Chaplin died his corpse was stolen by two Swiss mechanics in order to extort money from the family. The robbers were captured and Chaplin’s body was found eleven weeks later. To prevent further attempts, he was reburied under concrete.
VBOO4 TIL Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis is exactly the way it was on April 4th, 1968, complete with bed and food tray, when Martin Luther King was shot. Room 306 was never rented again and preserved as The National Civil Rights Museum
GYx5 TIL the inventor of the Brazen Bull, Perilaus of Athen’s, was tricked into being the first victim of his sadistic execution device; one of the most common methods of execution in Ancient Greece.