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TIL that Kirk Douglas and his wife lived to a combined age of 205

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rR99w TIL about “Charlie the Horse” who survived being trapped by the Frank Slide for a month but then died gorging on brandy and oats provided by his rescuers.
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m1nKy TIL about the Abiotic Petroleum Theory, which explains that hydrocarbons could generate in the mantle and then migrate through deep faults to Earth's crust (in addition to biological processes).
LkwvP TIL that Vincent Van Gogh was named after his dead older brother, who died in infancy exactly a year before he was born. It’s been suggested that being given the same name might have had a deep psychological impact on him and influenced his art.
e7pJ TIL that in 1937, MGM covered up the brutal rape of dancer Patricia Douglas and ruined her reputation and her life