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TIL that all the female voices in South Park were originally voiced by Mary Kay Bergman who committed suicide in 1999

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MeeJ0 TIL of Richard Ricci, a suspect in the disappearance of Elizabeth Smart. He died of an aneurysm while in police custody in 2002 after two months of proclaiming his innocence and enduring interrogations. His wife never fully recovered from the heartbreak and committed suicide in 2015.
16n9O TIL that bodies do not decompose in Lake Superior, due to the freezing temperatures, relative lifelessness, and lack of oxygen in its depths. The bodies of many sailors from its hundreds of shipwrecks still sit eerily preserved on the lake bottom.
50Nk TIL On a trip to China, Prince Philip joked to students that “If you stay here much longer, you’ll go slit-eyed.” After initial concerns of offense, Chinese officials responded that they also warned their students of going “round-eyed” when studying abroad.“
wok48 TIL A 30 year-old woman from New Zealand died in 2013 due to cardiac arrhythmia that was linked to her habit of drinking up to 2.6 gallons of Coca-Cola daily.
R5kE1 TIL “Fiddler on the Roof” is a smash hit in Japan, with hundreds of revivals since 1967. A Japanese producer wondered whether American audiences understood the play, “because it’s so Japanese.”