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TIL Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys picked up the tab for the Manson Family’s gonorrhea treatment.

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6EKo8 TIL for 26 years, German feminists Ottilie Assing and African-American Abolitionist Frederick Douglass were believed to be having an affair. I’m August 1884, after learning Douglass remarried to Helen Pitts, Assing killed herself by swallowing cyanide in a public park in Paris.
RP87 TIL that Ozzy Osbourne’s DNA has been sequenced to see how he’s still alive after a life of hard drug use and drinking. His full genome was sequenced and analysed by American researchers, who uncovered mutations related to addiction, metabolism, and Osbourne’s Neanderthal ancestors.
wMJo TIL that poison dart frogs kept in captivity are not dangerously toxic, because the alkaloids that make them toxic come from their prey. Bugs fed to them in captivity do not have these chemicals.
lowlG TIL that Neil Young was once banned by MTV for his hilarious takedown of major corporate brands
ngw9 TIL there is a territory in Costa Rica called Territorio De Zaguates (Land of the Strays) which is basically a huge no kill dog shelter where you can hike for free with the dogs