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TIL the artist Patrick Nagel, who created the cover art for Duran Duran's Rio album, died of a heart attack after a 15-min. celebrity Aerobathon to raise money for the American Heart Association

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0nZ5 TIL: James Joyce’s daughter Lucia suffered from schizophrenia. He took her to be treated by Carl Jung. His diagnosis; “You are both submerged in the same water but you are swimming, she is drowning”
RpR9 TIL Apollo 13 holds the absolute altitude record for a manned spacecraft, reaching a distance of 400,171 kilometers (248,655 mi) from Earth on 7:21 pm EST, April 14, 1970
loKpG TIL that the hymen is not a membrane that is broken during the first vaginal penetration of a woman, but rather it is a fold that is stretched during penetration and may or may not tear and bleed.
5VVb8 TIL that drinking soft drinks every day increases risk of bone fractures by 50% because they contain lots of phosphorus, which the body will absorb in place of calcium, causing calcium deficiency
BrmYW TIL the husband of Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden, Daniel Westling, was born on the day her father, King Gustav XVI, ascended the throne.