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TIL Type O Negative's title song "Bloody Kisses", about a woman who committed suicide, it’s a veiled tribute to Peter Steele's 17-year-old cat Venus: "No one wants to hear about a guy who's 6' 8" with long black hair and fangs crying about his f**kin' cat, so I had to make it extremely metaphoric."

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9nxr TIL some of the U.S.’s favorite craft breweries no longer technically brew “craft beer” - Founders, Ballast Point, Goose Island, Redhook, Elysian, Lagunitas and tons more kicked out of the craft beer category after acquisitions by big beer (aka Anheuser-Busch, Moslon, etc.)
JY864 TIL Matthew McConaughey's brother, Rooster McConaughey, named his son Miller Lyte and got free beer for a year.
pXYp TIL of Moe Berg, a professional baseball player who served as a spy for the U.S. during WWII. He attended a lecture by Werner Heisenberg under the orders to shoot Heisenberg if he made any indication that the Germans were close to making an atomic bomb.
xVx6w TIL that camera flash should always result in natural/red pupil. And any observation of white eye when looking directly at camera, should be immediately reported to an ophthalmologist to rule out a rare form of eye cancer.
Bg80K TIL that the Snotingas gave their name to the settlements of Nottingham, which were first recorded as ‘Snotengaham’ or literally ‘the homestead of Snot’s people.’ Over the years, the city’s name was gradually modified until it became known as Nottingham around the 12th century