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TIL that Popeye the sailor man was based on a real guy from Illinois.

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LkL7Q TIL Mötley Crüe Front man, Vince Neil killed friend and fellow musician Nicholas "Razzle" Dingley and caused brain injury to two other people while driving drunk in 1985. Because, in Neil's own words, "that's the power of cash".
x6Jl7 TIL there is a man buried on the moon. Eugene Shoemaker, a pioneer of planetary science and a founder of astrogeology became the first and only person to be buried on the moon when his ashes arrived there with the Lunar Prospector spacecraft on July 31, 1999.
M7jRB TIL that 18th-century Russian general Vasily Mikhailovych Dolgorukov was promoted to officer after distinguishing himself during the Siege of Perekop in the Russo-Turkish War of 1735 - 1739 with the age of 13.
ONJ1 TIL Auschwitz prisoner Kazimierz Piechowski, along with 3 others, were able to escape the camp by simply dressing up as Nazi Officers & commandeering the Deputy Führer’s car. When they arrived at the gate they simply barked orders to the guards who let them out no questions asked.
8JWP TIL Bryan Cranston was taught how to make meth by the DEA in preparation for his role in Breaking Bad