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TIL that mystery author Mary Roberts Rinehart -to whom the phrase 'The Butler Did It' is widely attributed (although she didn't use those exact words) - would later come close to being murdered by her own long-time servant.

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nePOB TIL that since 2013 starfishes in the Pacific Ocean have been going through a deadly plague/epidemic. The disease is called Sea Star Wasting Disease which seems to be associated with a virus. It causes the starfishes to tear their limbs apart and eventually leads to their deaths.
8W7a TIL: Upon seeing the movie “Pink Flamingos” Rodger Ebert said: I am not giving a star rating to Pink Flamingos, because stars simply seem not to apply. It should be considered not as a film but as a fact, or perhaps as an object.
b5Wp TIL Plants Can Recognize and Communicate With Relatives to Work Together
nWZkW TIL that before the advent of air guitar in the 1960s, music listeners would "shadow conduct" to phonograph records, pretending to lead an orchestra
1adbW TIL the reason MLB (Major League Baseball) has not faced any competitor leagues unlike the NHL, NFL and NBA is because of a 1922 Supreme Court case that granted them an exemption from the Sherman Antitrust Act, thus making them a legal monopoly