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TIL Sissy Spacek funded the early David Lynch
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TIL the Black Death was originally spread to Europe in the 14th century by Mongols catapulting infected corpses into an Italian trading outpost in Crimea, who fled and unwittingly carried the disease back to Sicily where it proceeded to wipe out up to 60% of Europe's population in four years
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TIL that in 1923, Frank Hayes became the first ever jockey to win a horse race despite being dead. He died from a heart attack mid-race but somehow his body stayed strapped onto the horse and he crossed the finish line in first place, beating 20-1 odds.
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TIL a Japanese postmaster under investigation for embezzlement deployed three suicide attempts in succession before succeeding: hanging himself, leaping off a cliff, then drowning.
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TIL that when American Idol premiered in 2002, it had two hosts: Ryan Seacrest and Brian Dunkleman. Dunkleman resigned after the first season, while Seacrest continued on with the show and earned about $10 million a year. Dunkleman was later reported driving for Uber.
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TIL So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish was written by Douglas Adams when his editor Sonny Mehta, locked him in a hotel room to force him to write it after becoming fed up with Adams constantly procrastinating and failing to meet deadlines.