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TIL The Bayeux Tapestry is not a tapestry

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wLL6W TIL Fergie dated and admits to “making out” with Justin Timberlake when she was 23 and he was 16. She jokes about it and referred to him as Mr. Right Now
jNXXX TIL about Typhoid Mary; a cook identified as a carrier with no symptoms of Typhoid Fever, who infected over 50 people and killed three. She was forcibly quarantined for nearly 30 years.
mxOZy TIL that many cat shelters will not let you adopt black cats around Halloween for fear that they will be used for posing with costumes or worse, used for ritual slaughter
nGkd TIL in 1963 at age 11, Kurt Russell starred in a movie with Elvis Presley. 16 years later, a 27-year-old Russell played Elvis in a TV movie, and 15 years after that, voiced Elvis in Forrest Gump.
dD6yj TIL a month prior to his 11th birthday, Peter Fonda accidentally shot himself in the abdomen and nearly died. Years later while taking LSD with John Lennon and George Harrison, he mentioned the incident, saying, "I know what it's like to be dead." This inspired The Beatles' song "She Said She Said"