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TIL of the Bulwer-Lyton fiction contest, in which entrants are invited "to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels"

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LQN09 TIL Shirley Temple's daughter Lori Black was the bassist for the Grunge/Alt-Metal band the Melvins
LQgbP TIL about the Enumclaw horse sex case where in 2005 a Boeing engineer died after receiving anal sex from a horse named “Big Dick”
x6VLB TIL of the 2000 year old Fayum mummy portraits that depicted deceased individuals in near realist style portraits.
p8w88 TIL the voices schizophrenics hear are actually their own subvocal speech. This is why it's so common for schizophrenics to believe their minds are being read.
rNX80 TIL that the Ohio River's volume is greater than the Mississippi's volume at their confluence; hydrologically, the resulting river is usually named for the higher-flow contributor.