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TIL Popcorn icon Orville Redenbacher Died By Drowning in A Hot Tub

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xVALg TIL In the 11th century, The first recorded attempt of human flight was by Eilmer of Malmesbury, who attached wings to his arms and legs and was said to have been blown 200m in the wind, before crashing. He put his failure down to not attaching a tail.
grLeL TIL: That in 1970, Lula Cora Hood, a single mother of four in Illinois, vanished after a family argument. Decades later, a skeleton found in 1996 was thought to be hers. However, in 2011, 84-year-old Lula was discovered alive in Jacksonville, Florida.
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x6B9g TIL that Mozart wrote a song called "Lick me in the arse".