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TIL that the day Keith Richards was shooting Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End he was so drunk that the film’s director had to prop him up in order to shoot his scene.

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ZpV8R TIL that in 2017 the fastest growing cosmetic procedure in the world, was labiaplasty
v1w87 TIL that President Martin Van Buren is the first and only US President to speak English as a second language, being Dutch his first. He is also the first president that was born after America's Independence from the United Kingdom.
ZGxD Til that in 2010 the mummified corpse of Sogen Kato, thought to be Tokyo’s oldest man, was found in his bedroom by government officials. He had actually died in 1978.
16RK8 TIL that in 2021 a woman in South Africa claimed to have given birth to 10 babies at once. A government inquiry found the claim to be untrue, but the news organisation who first reported the story has alleged that it was a cover-up. The woman has not been seen or heard from since.
lK TIL that George Eastman, founder of Kodak, shot himself, leaving behind a note that said “To my friends: My work is done. Why wait?”