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TIL: Rob Lowe went to high school with Charlie Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Sean Penn, Chris Penn, and Robert Downey Jr..

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Bgw0e TIL that in 1904, the Olympic marathon in St. Louis became infamous for its chaotic and bizarre events. Runners suffered due to extreme heat, one athlete took a car for part of the race, and another was nearly poisoned by his coach, who gave him brandy and strychnine as "performance enhancers."
eGD TIL Amelia Earhart most likely survived her plane crash and lived for a short while as a castaway on a small island in the south Pacific.
pYrlG TIL Jochen Rindt from Austria is the only Formula One driver to win the World Drivers' Championship posthumously. He was killed during practice for the 1970 Italian GP, but he had earned enough points that no other driver could surpass his total by season's end.
8aDBP TIL While on a trip to Athens in 1809, Lord Byron fell in love with a 12 year old girl, the daughter of a local man who was accommodating him. He offered to buy the girl from her family for £500, but they refused
9wwbB TIL that the New Zealand govt maintains an online tool predicting when you have a 50% probability of dying by. Based on your current age and sex, and using historical data on age of death and implied trends, it spits out the age at which you are predicted to have a 50% chance of dying by.