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TIL: The smell of rotting potatoes can kill you

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lobLG TIL the director of the film version of MAS*H wanted the "stupidest song ever written", named "Suicide Is Painless", for the film. His 14-year-old son wrote it in five minutes and made over a million dollars in royalties.
XgRD TIL that 23 year old, Joe Arridy, a intellectually disabled man with an IQ of 46, was wrongfully executed in 1939. He was known for playing with his toy train that the prison warden gave him as a present while on death row. Guards and Inmates described him as “the happiest prisoner on death row”
neg7W TIL according to the most recent estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, the average age of first marriage for women in 2017 was 27.4 years and for men it was 29.5 years. In 1990, the average age of marriage for women was 24; in 1980 it was 22; and back in the 1950s, it was only 20.
ADRR7 TIL The average time a woman can hold a secret is 47 hours and 15 minutes.
X0pQj TIL that actor Kiefer Sutherland threatened to not reprise the role of Doc Scurlock in the movie Young Guns 2 unless he was given a dramatic death scene in the movie, which was reluctantly granted. The historical Doc Scurlock actually died peacefully at the age of 80.