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TIL Keith Moon and John Entwistle once payed a hooker $100 to give Pete Townshend gonorrhea

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e0kR4 TIL in 1999, the mummified remains of a pregnant Hispanic woman were found in a drum in the crawl space of a house in NY. She was identified as Reyna Marroquín, a woman who’d vanished in 1969. She’d had an affair with her employer. He killed himself before police could properly question him.
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