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TIL Anne Rice was named after her father

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DAkV TIL of a plot to kill a man by giving him unlimited drinking credit and thus making him drink himself to death. He wouldn’t die even after they tried serving him antifreeze, turpentine, rat poison etc. He is known as ‘Durable Mike Malloy’ or 'Iron Mike’.
bGlj TIL That of the almost 900 genes we have related to smell, over 50% are ‘broken’ and do not translate into useful proteins.
8Jrb TIL Kentucky Fried Chicken accidentally translated their slogan “finger-lickin’ good” to “eat your fingers off” when first opening for business in China
rEp0 TIL: Many of the most badass lines in the movie 300 were real historical quotes; and that dry, blunt wit has been named after that region of Grece as a result.
NnyP TIL a mailman noticed a dead body on the porch of a home he was delivering mail to, dismissed it as a Halloween prop and continued on his route. It was the dead homeowner who collapsed and died coming home from work.