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TIL One Of The Media’s Favorite “Millennials” To Quote Is Actually a 55-Year-Old Lying About His Age

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rRLJ1 TIL about Margaret Schilling a mental patient who went missing in December 1978. Jan '79 local news reporting her escaped. 5 weeks later, worker finds her body locked alone in a construction area. Her decomp left a stain in the marble of her death pose that endures to today.
GAVwQ TIL in the early 1900s, lead arsenate was the most widely used pesticide in the U.S. The USDA recommended it broadly and millions of acres were sprayed with it across the country to protect crops.
wLxKW TIL that Beethoven was deaf, and that he eventually had to use a pencil to feel the vibrations of the piano. During one of his symphony’s he had to be turned around to see the audience applaud since he couldn’t hear them.
VDVQ TIL Eddie Murphy stayed away from SNL for over 30 years because a joke David Spade made
ANpB TIL that in China, strippers were often hired for funerals until recently