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TIL that "Clint Eastwood" is an anagram of "Old West Action".

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MMX7 TIL the Imjin river in South Korea is nicknamed ‘river of the dead’ because large numbers of dead North Koreans have floated down it.
rQ8o TIL a failed experiment of an 18 year old English chemist in search of a treatment for malaria in 1856 produced one of the world’s first synthetic dyes for the color purple, which severely impacted economic trade as some natural dyes were major commodities more valuable than silver or gold
P11lE TIL uranium is 500x more common on Earth than gold.
LQlkQ TIL famous baseball player Arthur Irwin committed suicide by jumping off a ship in 1921. When he died, two widows emerged. He had been living a double life and was married two different women in different cities.
PWvL TIL that a fifth wheel was a concept to help with parallel parking in the 1950’s.