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TIL that Ultrasuede (a form of synthetic suede) is partly made from molasses

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E607 TIL Bob Marley’s father was a white Englishman who was approximately 60 years old when he impregnated the singer’s mother, who was only 18 years old
LW4Q TIL there is a modern Australian interpretation of Macbeth where the title character is a high ranking gang member in Melbourne’s underworld who tries to kill his crime boss. The prophetic vision shown to Macbeth by the three witches is depicted as a drug induced trip at a night club.
ragd TIL In 2012 the voters of Cook County in Illinois once again voted to keep a clinically insane judge on the bench. Judge Cynthia Brimm has had multiple hospitalizations following courtroom psychotic breakdowns and refuses to take her prescribed anti-psychotic medication.
79JZ TIL that author John Steinbeck was investigated by the FBI for being acquaintances with leftists and attempting to write a novel exposing the conditions in Japanese concentration camps in 1943.
9bvB TIL that the “tidal wave” planet in Interstellar is theoretically possible due to the rapid rotation of the planet.