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TIL Loneliness can kill you by ravaging your body and brain.

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GYK14 TIL that the depictions of the mafia in The Sopranos were so accurate, that real members thought that they were being spied on. These conversations were overheard, when the FBI were indeed spying on them.
R5Mg8 TIL actor Brian Dennehy, who played Sheriff Will Teasle in “Rambo: First Blood”, lied about serving in Vietnam, and being wounded in combat more than once. Though he was a Marine for four years, he was never in combat during the Vietnam War, a fallacy he admitted in 1998.
ZpyLY TIL the Austrlian jewel beetle nearly went extinct because of Emu beer bottles. Their colour and texture drove the male beetles wild with lust, causing them to ignore the females of the species and swarm the bottles until they starved to death or were eaten by other animals.
ANKLl TIL about "kite fighting", a competitive pastime involving disposable kites and glass-coated strings used to cut loose another fighter's kite.
b9ML9 TIL about the highest-paid performer in the world in the 1910s: Scottish singer and comedian Sir Harry Lauder. He rose from being a coal miner singing in occasional town concerts to commanding over £12,000 per night. He was the first British artist to sell a million records.