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TIL Courtney Love called out Marilyn Manson and the band Korn for sleeping with underage girls in 2005

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E1Q5p TIL Adam Weishaupt, the man who created the Illuminati, did so because he couldn't afford the Freemason's high membership fees.
nWkl9 TIL about the Abode of Chaos. Artist Thierry Ehrmann bought an old scenic house in a rural town and transformed it into a replica war zone that serves as an open-air museum of radical avant-garde art. This has angered locals enough to sue him in France's supreme court.
8dgG TIL The White Ship disaster, 1120, in which drowned William Adelin, the only legitimate son and heir of King Henry I of England, his half-sister Matilda, and his half-brother Richard, leading to a succession crisis and a period of civil war in England known as the Anarchy.
k6Z4 TIL There is 80 million Irish people in the world but only ~4 million in Ireland
4EZJ TIL in 1982 a Bolivian Drug smuggler’s son was busted in the US. The drug lord sent a letter to Ronald Reagan, proposing that in exchange for his son’s liberty he would pay off Bolivia’s entire foreign debt ($3.8 billion).