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TIL that Richard Pryor was Ludacris’ cousin

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JYagk TIL in 2004, Seth Putnam -- vocalist of the grindcore band Anal C**t, whose offensive song titles included "You're Gay" and "You're in a Coma" -- overdosed and ironically lapsed into a brief coma. He later stated that actually being in a coma "was just as gay [and] fuckin' stupid as I wrote it was."
7M1b TIL in 1998 a 16 year old British boy obsessed with smelling nice died from using too much deodorant.
jN0Ra TIL the name of "Spam" is a portmanteau of "spiced ham".
jN0bR TIL Robert Propst, inventor of modern day Cubicles in 1968, called them “monolithic insanity” before he died in 2000.
KQj9 TIL In 1989, CIA original operative, wrote that in the future, World War 3 would occur when “Soviet Russia” dupes the United States and Israel into waging a self-destructive war with the Muslim/Arab world.