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TIL that reporter Marie Torre was arrested for ten days after writing a defaming column about singer Judy Garland’s weight being a reason her television contract was terminated and refusing to tell Garland who provided that information

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WknDo TIL although Nobel Prizes are not awarded posthumously, the 2011 Prize in Physiology and Medicine for Ralph M. Steinman still stands because the committee was unaware he had died three days before the announcement.
8eLea TIL about Amy Carlson, a woman who claimed to be God. She also claimed she was Cleopatra , Jesus, and Harriet Tubman in past lives and communed with a council of aliens made up of celebrities like Robin Williams, Tupac, Chris Farley, and Carol Burnett. She died in 2021.
4XDPa TIL Proboscis monkeys have red dicks
9w8lm TIL: The bony-eared assfish is the vertebrate with the lowest known brain to body mass index.
pv0A TIL that there’s a bush which emits a flammable, oily substance which can be lit on fire, without burning the bush itself.