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TIL comedian Stewart Lee frequently stole material from his partner Richard Herring.

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69md7 Today I learned you can get skin burns from peppers.
GGaQ TIL bluesman R. L. Burnside once killed a man at a dice game. When asked about the incident, he said: “I didn’t mean to kill nobody. I just meant to shoot the sonofabitch in the head and two times in the chest. Him dying was between him and the Lord.”
PYmDL TIL that Heather Mason from Silent Hill 3 was given shorter hair for the convenience of video games: it would have taken more processing power of the PlayStation 2 to animate longer realistic hair and the game designers used the processing power towards increasing monster numbers instead.
9YkjG TIL The production manager to 'Goonies' and 'Deliverance' retired from show business to pursue a dream to hand out bibles in exotic countries and help people in need. He sold his house to custom make a boat to hold a load of bibles. In 2011 he and his wife were shot and killed by Somali pirates.
GY1XN TIL that in the 1920s and 30s, Goo Goo Clusters were advertised as “a nourishing lunch for a nickel” because the main health concern at the time was caloric intake, and candy was seen as a form of inexpensive nourishment.