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TIL Our knowledge of Cyanide’s taste comes from one man’s suicide note.

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p8XON TIL that the National Art Museum Of Ukraine recreated a "Sleeping Beauty" live exhibit inviting men to awaken beauties with a kiss. Five women were selected to perform "sleeping", having agreed to a very binding clause to marry the men if they opened their eyes while being kissed.
JYGMB TIL that the former president of SEGA gave the company $730M as part of his dying will, in the form of stocks and debt forgiveness, covering the loss from the the Dreamcast failure.
ADXWg TIL the quickest a football player has been sent off was just 2 seconds after the starting whistle when striker Lee Todd said "Fuck me, that was loud!"
LkNZZ TIL Johnny Depp paid a tech company hundreds of thousands of dollars for years, to feed him his lines through an ear piece so he no longer needed to memorize them.
R7bAw TIL that filmmaker James Cameron reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the ocean, in the Deepsea Challenger submersible on March 26, 2012. He is the first person to do this in a solo descent, and is only the third person to do so ever.