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TIL that Renato Bialetti requested that his ashes be placed in a big moka machine

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l75nN TIL: As recently as the 1950’s around 50% of Americans age 65 and older lived in multigenerational households.
Omy6 TIL that “MAS*H” audiences were so upset that character Col. H. Blake was killed when his plane was shot down over the Sea of Japan that actor McLean Stevenson appeared in a skit on The Cher Show afterwards in a lifeboat saying, “I’m OK! I’m OK!”
YPAW TIL that in 2009, Mexico released a list of their top 37 most-wanted drug lords. Since then, 18 have been captured, 8 are dead, and 11 remain at large.
n8Ad Today I learned: Vivian Banks (Janet Louise Hubert) was fired from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air because of drama between her and Will Smith.
KXkE TIL in the late 19th Century, a woman named Nellie Bly became an investigative journalist, had herself committed to expose poor conditions at mental institutions, traveled the world in under 80 days, married a millionaire, and became an industrialist.