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TIL David Bowie founded the “Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Men with Long Hair” when he was 17. The BBC interviewed him about it on which he stated “It's not nice when people call you darling and that"

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E1J1W TIL The term 'oophagy' means embryos feeding on eggs produced by the ovary while still inside the mother's uterus. This intrauterine cannibalism occurs in sandtiger sharks.
QJ9YX TIL that when a cruise ship started sinking in 1991, her captain abandoned ship without helping the passengers. In the end, the ships entertainers organized the evacuation. The captain even contacted them from shore and asked them how it was going.
RoA8 TIL in 1983, a small town in Missouri was permanently evacuated after high levels of dioxin was discovered in soil samples. It was discovered that a man hired to oil the dirt roads to keep dust down had used waste from a company making Agent Orange.
W7OX TIL: Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters) entered a state of depression, but then he recorded an entire album himself including vocals, guitar, bass and drum tracks, finishing the album in under a week, the album became Foo Fighters second best selling album ever, and it received a lot of good reviews
gMNpy TIL A rapper called Mac is serving 30 years in prison for manslaughter. In 2001, the prosecutors based their case on the lyrics of his songs and he was convicted although someone else confessed to the murder. Since then, four eyewitnesses said they were coerced by prosecution to testify.