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TIL Michael Nesmith from the Monkees produced the video for Lionel Richie's hit All Night Long

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v149B TIL The State of Israel is widely believed to possess nuclear weapons. Nuclear technician and whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu revealed details of Israel's nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986. Later he was drugged, abducted and secretly transported to Israel and ultimately convicted.
0oGR TIL that Astrid Lindgren, the author of Pippi Longstocking, at one point paid a marginal tax rate of 102%. She nevertheless supported the Social Democratic Party responsible for the tax rate her whole life.
6dVJ TIL that WD-40 can be used to remove paint marks from cars, oil stains from driveways, and tomato stains from clothes, keep away roaches, “polish” plastic patio furniture, +46 more uses.
ADpKn TIL about Robert Pickton the Pig Farmer Killer who confessed to murdering 49 women 83-2002. There’s even speculation that he ground his victims up with pork and sold it to the public. He said he was disappointed that he didn’t get to 50 women and was caught because he was “sloppy”.
Z8Vgp TIL in 1998 Bill O'Reilly wrote a novel about a tall, bitter, sexually predatory newsman who gets forced out of his job and starts murdering former colleagues who helped to ruin his career.