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TIL Elvis Presley actually died from an autoimmune disorder caused from multiple traumatic brain injuries

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5YR4r TIL Disney made a knockoff Star Wars rockband in 1981 called HALYX. The band played one summer at Disneyland and featured among many characters a bass playing "wookie". One of the songs they performed in front of kids and teens at Disneyland was a song about Jailbait called, "Jailbait"
0w0oA TIL A pair of low power (2-3x), wide-field binoculars can pull in fainter stars while still showing entire large constellations. Observers describe these binoculars giving them 'super vision', as Constellations outlined by fainter 4th and 5th magnitude stars, like Eridanus , pop into view
Re91 TIL that Robert Landsburg, while filming Mount St. Helens volcano eruption in 1980 realized he could not survive it, so he rewound the film back into its case, put his camera in his backpack, and then lay himself on top of the backpack to protect the film for future researchers.
b9474 TIL I learned of Rodney Alcala, a serial killer who appeared on the TV show "The Dating Game", after he had already killed numerous people. He was said to have an IQ of 160, and interrogated himself on the witness stand during his trial, in Smeagol/Gollum fashion, switching voices and demeanor.
dD61E TIL that the candy company Mars Inc. is the largest owner of stand-alone veterinary clinics in the United States"