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TIL Carlos Santana hears from angels since reading a book about them from a Milwaukee airport. Since 1994, the high-angel Metatron speaks through him ("like a fax machine") & convinced him to make an album. This became the Grammy-sweeping "Supernatural"— which includes "Smooth [ft. Rob Thomas]"

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wje6 TIL Magic Johnson earned just over $18 million in salary. In retirement he used that money to launch a business empire called Magic Johnson Enterprises that is valued at over $1 billion today.
yQ4VM TIL when the deposed last Empress Consort of China was imprisoned, she would hallucinate that she was still in the Forbidden City, demanding opium and servants. Put on display in the jail as if she was in a zoo, she died from malnutrition and opium withdrawal in a pool of her own bodily fluids.
w40o TIL in 1847 Robert Liston amputated a mans leg in under 2.5 minutes, operaterating so quickly he amputated the fingers of his assistant as well. Both later died from gangrene, and a spectator reportedly dropped dead from fright, making it the only known operation with a 300% mortality rate.
JVV TIL there is a parasite that feeds of it’s hosts tongue and instead of leaving after he’s finished, becomes the hosts new tongue.
R50e7 TIL the Casino Estoril in Cascais, Portugal, was a source of inspiration for Ian Fleming's "Casino Royale" (1953), the fist James Bond novel.