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Today I learned the guitar that's smashed in The Hateful Eight was the real museum piece dating back to the 1870s

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4Edg TIL that if you live long enough, you will eventually develop Cancer
WkNOB TIL Wagner-Jauregg (1927) managed to cure syphilis by infecting the patient with malaria. He won the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
JYLy4 TIL Early in his naval career, Horatio Nelson nearly died while fighting a polar bear. Wanting the bear’s pelt as a gift for his father, Nelson’s gun misfired and he attacked the bear with the butt of his rifle. He was only saved when his ship fired a cannon that scared the bear and it ran off.
R5dda TIL that Fahrenheit 451 was serialized in Playboy
W70YX TIL shortly after the rock band Great White began performing in 2003 at The Station in Rhode Island, their tour manager set off pyrotechnics whose sparks ignited flammable acoustic foam. Within six minutes of the ignition, the entire building was engulfed in flames—100 attendees died.