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TIL Babe Ruth started chewing tobacco and drinking whiskey at age 7

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E6j7 TIL that D.W. Griffiths, who made the racist pro-KKK film “The Birth of a Nation”, responded to his critics with subsequent films that preached social justice and the first ever movie about an interracial love story.
kJkj4 TIL: The sovereign citizen movement in Ontario, Canada is so bothersome the Ontario Govt. made it illegal to add it on your license signature.
5VmXn TIL that bees use mushrooms as a natural mite or pesticide killer, from the mycelium found in sawdust piles.
QJp TIL that because of crossovers and spinoffs, some believe that 280+ TV shows all take place in the same universe, which exists inside the head of an autistic child - it’s called the Tommy Whestphall Universe Hypothesis
eJNk TIL In Kurt Cobain’s suicide note, he quoted a Neil Young song saying “It’s better to burn out than fade away”. Neil Young said that “it fucked with me” and he had actually been trying to get in touch with Cobain around when his suicide happened, in order to offer encouragement.