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TIL that in 1984, Vince Neil drove drunk and killed one man and left two others with severe brain damage. After that he headed five alcohol-based companies.

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1Ex4 TIL John F. Kennedy was the first president to not wear a hat during his inauguration speech. Sales of men’s hats plummeted and due to this and other factors, have never recovered.
m1lVx TIL Commodus once held a grand 14 day gladiatorial event with himself as the center piece. The "highlights" include him killing 100 bears in a day. The crowd was hesitant to attend the arena due to a rumour that he would start shooting random spectators in reenactment of the stymphalian birds myth
loXQV TIL that older adults have a disproportionately good memory of events which occurred when they were 16 to 25 years of age. A phenomenon known as the reminiscence bump.
a89Z9 TIL about Phobos 1, a Soviet space probe launched to study Mars' moon. It shut down before ever reaching Mars because a technician left out a single hyphen in one of the keyed commands. All commands were supposed to be proofread by a computer before being transmitted, but the computer malfunctioned.
ZJlp TIL that 2003 was likely “the first time an automatic weapon had been fired in a crime in Britain.”