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TIL Otis Redding died 3 days after recording (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay

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OoyaY TIL: About the Chicago Tylenol Murders where 7 people died from taking Tylenol laced with cyanide. This led to the creation of safety seals and tamper proof packaging on over the counter medication.
X05JR TIL Dwayne the rock Johnson's movie contracts do not allow his character to lose fights
76rO TIL after the first test preview of Apollo 13 (a film firmly based on true events) one comment card indicated the film had a typical “Hollywood ending” and that the crew would’ve never survived in real life.
VBLDB TIL- As of 2022, there were fewer than nine fluent native speakers of Comanche.
D1n5Y TIL Einstein married his first cousin, Elsa Löwenthal. (Not only were their mothers sisters, but their fathers were cousins too, making the married couple second cousins as well.) The relationship began while Einstein was still married to his first wife, physicist Mileva Marić.