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yQXZ8 TIL that during his military service musician Johnny Cash was the first westerner to learn that Joseph Stalin had died
LBpZ TIL a homeless man was found decapitated with a severed chicken head shoved in his neck. An occult detective predicted that the Santeria cult took his head to make a brain stew, and that they would return the head in 42 days. She was taken off the case, and the head showed up 42 days later.
Qol9 TIL: In 1978 D.C. comics published Superman vs. Muhammad Ali.
a8ony TIL British newspapers campaigned to ban controversial film Crash(1996). Film classification board inquired with lawyers, psychologist, disabled people, found no evidence for ban, and passed the film uncut
NXQAM TIL "Hypochondria" simply means "Regions of the Abdomen," once thought to be the source of morbid feelings