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TIL Carrie Fisher's ashes were buried in urn shaped like a Prozac pill.

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QGEe TIL that James Sinegal, former CEO of Costco, said he did not care about Wall Street analysts who had criticized him for putting good treatment of employees and customers ahead of pleasing shareholders. A favorite quote attributed to Sinegal is “you have to take the shit with the sugar”
jNoZj TIL Japanese prime minister Kantarō Suzuki narrowly escaped assassination. The bullet remained inside his body for the rest of his life, and was only revealed upon his cremation. Suzuki was opposed to Japan's war with the United States, before and throughout World War II
EdP0 TIL the worse genocide (number wise) in modern times was not the Holocaust, but the genocide by Belgium in the Congo at the turn of the century (somewhere around 10 million killed).
pYMVp TIL in 1987, during KNBC's Ch 4 News in LA, Gary Stollman got into NBC's Burbank Studios as a guest of a former employee and took David Horowitz hostage live on air. With a gun pressed to his side, Horowitz calmly read the gunman's statements about the CIA and mental health hospitals on camera.
AD1Bg TIL: That the old mnemonic of "Red touches black, it’s a friend of Jack" for coral snakes isn't reliable.