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TIL Corelle's dishware before 2005 has very HIGH amounts of lead in it

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kJ41B TIL While filming "Orca" actor Richard Harris read a tabloid magazine that photographed his wife Ann Turkel on a beach with a younger man. He wanted to stop filming, fly to Malibu and kill them both. Harris relented when he got into a brawl with the film's screenwriter and gave him a black eye.
p8gN4 TIL In the original Jekyll and Hyde novella, a 3rd party (Gabriel Utterson) is the protagonist and the story is told from his point of view.
rRDvM TIL about a Confederate cemetery in Oxford Mississippi. Currently there is only one large marker for the cemetery, there use to be individual headstones for each plot but years ago the groundskeeper moved them to cut the lawn and forgot where they belonged.
wolR1 TIL the reason many African countries have the colours green, yellow and red on their flags is because of an Ethiopian influence. The colours of the flag of Ethiopia, have come to represent the pan-Africanist ideology because it avoided being taken over by a colonial power.
LQ6RV TIL: Genghis Khan was took an arrow in the knee while on campaign against the Jin Dynasty and instead of retiring, went on to pillage and sack the Jin capital