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TIL: Some Horses grow mustaches.

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Jl6k TIL The Radium Girls were factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting watch dials with self-luminous paint. The women were told the paint was harmless, and ingested deadly amounts by licking their paintbrushes; some painted their fingernails and teeth with the glowing paint.
kOvM5 TIL Snoopy has seven siblings, Andy, Marbles, Belle, Olaf, Molly, Rover, and most notably, Spike.
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kJZme TIL about a woman who asked to be tortured and killed for sexual gratification
Me79B TIL Marcia Lucas, George Lucas’ then wife, was the reason for major changes to the Original Star Wars film. Obi Wan’s death, Leia’s good Luck Kiss and re-editing the trench run to increase tension were all her ideas. She won the Academy Award for editing the film while George did not for directing.