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TIL Alice Pierce, who played nosy neighbor Gladys Kravitz in the television sitcom Bewitched, received a posthumous Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She died of ovarian cancer during production of season 2, having kept it secret since joining the show.

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gMOXb TIL that in Kenya, elephant poop is being used to make paper. Elephants poop up to 50kg a day which can produce 125 sheets of paper. This helps save the indigenous tree population and forest from being destroyed, along with creating a need for the 7000 elephants left in Kenya.
VMEMG TIL that April 11, 1954 is considered the most boring day in history with no significant births or deaths occurring on that day.
dYGK TIL during the reign of the Khmer Rouge, there was a prison camp, named S-21, that had a death rate of 99.96%. S-21 was directed by a former math teacher who ordered “living autopsies,” had prisoners’ blood completely drained for use in hospitals, and used a “baby-smashing tree” to kill children.
7rnob TIL that Isaac Newton at height of his career gave up science to run the mint in London, where he spent the rest of his life chasing counterfeiters and dabbling in alchemy and mysticism. He died in 1727 at age 84, apparently a virgin.
v1O4j TIL Nicolas Cage proposed to Patricia Arquette on the day he met her. Arquette thought it was strange but played along by creating a list of things to fulfill to win her. As he worked through the list, she got scared and avoided him. Strangely, they met again years later and eventually married.