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TIL Tony Dalton (Lalo on Better Call Saul) hosted a Jackass-esque Mexican reality show in the early 2000s, which was cancelled when a 19-year-old contestant died of alcohol poisoning after being made to drink 40 shots of tequila.

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jNbgQ TIL that the difference between a healthy fear and clinical phobia is not logic. You can be afraid of anything , like this person who had a celebrity phobia. She was afraid of Hugh Jackman.
LB1P TIL Creed put on such a bad show in 2002 at Allstate Arena that a $2,000,000 class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of all the fans in atendance
rxOw TIL of Carl Fisher who built a fortune in automobile headlights, then went on to found the first auto dealership, the first transcontinental road, the Indianapolis speedway, and the town of Miami Beach. He lost most of his fortune in the Great Depression and was largely forgotten by history.
69pRw TIL about Russia’s “Time of Troubles” (1598–1612), when three imposters—False Dmitry I, II, and III—each claimed to be Ivan the Terrible’s son, who had died at age 8. All seized power as Tsar and died violently. The chaos ended with the rise of the Romanov dynasty in 1613.
M7oMB TIL about Giovanni Battista Bugatti, known as Mastro Titta. An Italian executioner of the Papal States who executed 514 people during his 68 years of activity. Bugattis blood-stained clothes, axes, and guillotines are on display at the Museum of Criminology at Via del Gonfalone in Rome.