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TIL INXS lead singer Michael Hutchence suffered a fractured skull and brain damage from a cabbie attack in 1992. This resulted in depressive episodes and violent outbursts including pulling a knife on his bandmates and threatening to kill them. Five years later Michael hung himself.

K5lB TIL of the Laha Massacre where Japanese forces picked 300 Australian and Dutch POWs at random in February 1942 and executed them in revenge for the sinking of a Japanese ship. Surviving crew members of the sunken ship took part in the killings.
0dMoR TIL: Your fingernail grows about 1 nanometer per second, so in a few seconds, it grows roughly the length of the smallest features in modern 3nm CPUs.
wPro TIL that in Rome the ruins of Pompey’s Theatre (the temple where Julius Caesar was assassinated) is now a protected cat sanctuary. This important historical site is now a no-kill zone for various breeds of cats to live peacefully
grgOy TIL that in 2019, American actor Charles Levin, aged 70, died after his car got stuck in unmaintained wilderness road in Oregon. After trying to free it, he left the car in search of help and fell to his death down a 30-foot (9 m) embankment. The body of his dog, Boo Bear, was found inside the car.
JYlbV TIL that on 6 may 1990, over 1.2 million people from Romania and the Republic of Moldova met at the border set on Prut river, as the restrictions were temporarily lifted. The event was known as the Bridge of Flowers. Many people brought flowers to meet the relatives they haven't seen in decades