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TIL the author of The Three Musketeers & The Count of Monte Cristo was black

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PrnL TIL that a woman named Gaby Olthuis suffered from tinnitus (ringing in the ears) to such an extent that she opted for doctor assisted suicide
xVDa5 TIL when actor Fred Gwynne died, many newspapers used a photo of him as Fred Munster as his obituary photo.
lon7A TIL Fedex nearly went bankrupt in its early days - its founder took the company's last $5000 to Las Vegas and won enough money through blackjack to cover their $24000 fuel bill.
9bM TIL Intel spilled 1.4 tons of carbon tetrachloride in Rio Rancho, New Mexico in 2003. Deceased dogs in the area were found to have high levels of toluene, hexane, ethylbenzene, and xylene isomers in their lungs. Intel later lied and reported no release of carbon tetrachloride for all of 2003.
9wLaB TIL every LEGO minifigure had the exact same head shape for the first 21 yrs of minifigure production, limiting what characters it could do. It wasn't until 1999 & the Jar Jar Binks minifigure for Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace that LEGO introduced sculpted head pieces for its minifigures