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TIL that Richard Pryor was Ludacris’ cousin

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VB7VZ TIL In 2010, Greg Fleniken was found dead inside his locked Texas hotel room. He had no obvious external injuries but massive internal damage. His death was ruled a homicide. After an 8-month investigation, it was found that a drunk guest in the next room accidentally shot Fleniken in the scrotum.
j0eM TIL Prince used the heartbeat of his unborn son as part of the percussion in his song Sex in the Summer on the album Emancipation. One month before the album was released his son died of a congenital birth defect shortly after birth.
pYNBZ TIL that when a man named Reginald Francis Cheese enlisted in the British army during World War I, he used the surname "Cleese" because he found his real surname embarrassing. He officially changed his surname to Cleese in 1923, and went on to become the father of the famous comedian John Cleese.
mxG5o TIL About Abbie Sweetwine, an African American Nurse who helped save passengers in Britain's largest peacetime accident, Harrow & Wealdstone
YrVB TIL that in WWII a three man group of American soldiers secured the surrender of an entire German Panzer Corps composed of 15,000 soldiers.