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TIL that prior to establishing an acting career, Harrison Ford worked as a roadie for The Doors. He stated that after the job was done he was "was one step away from joining a Jesuit monastery" and that he "couldn't keep up with those guys. It was too much."

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yV7yl TIL Korean serial killer Kim Sun-ja laced her friend's tea with cyanide, causing her to vomit. She told her friend that she would feel better if she drank more of the beverage, but her friend became suspicious and refused, becoming the only known survivor of 6 poisoning victims from 1986 to 1988
kJ1RE TIL in 1989 actress Zsa Zsa Gabor slapped a Beverly Hills police office in the face during a traffic stop, was found guilty by a jury and eventually served 3 days in jail.
VMxDk TIL that in 1872, politician Boss Tweed fled to Spain to escape being convicted on fraud charges. However, he was deported and sent back to the US after Spanish authorities saw a political cartoon of him and mistaked him for a child abductor.
1egV TIL Prince once played ping-pong against Michael Jackson at an LA studio. Prince asked, “You want me to slam it?” MJ didn’t, dropped his paddle and left with his bodyguard. Prince then started “strutting around like a rooster” and said “Did you see that? He played like Helen Keller.”
GYAA5 TIL that Flatworms participate in “penis fencing” where two hermaphroditic worms try to impregnate the other in order to become the alpha male, rather than having to bear children.