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TIL That Dick Cheney’s wife wrote an erotic lesbian novel and tried to cover it up

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mx84O A 23-year-old man fell into Yellowstone Park's hot spring and completely dissolved within a day. The waters of the hot spring aren't just incredibly hot, but very acidic too. This is due to one of the largest magma chambers in the world beneath the spring.
vPpeB TIL about The Lady Killer, which was the biggest box office bomb ever in Indian Cinema. It had a budget of 45 crore rupees (53M USD) and grossed only 70000 rupees (8.3k USD
LkgPP TIL that during the Vietnam War, an American POW used his blinking to spell out the word 'TORTURE' in Morse code when he was forced to perform in a Vietnamese propaganda film that was to be sent to the U.S.
N7MpM TIL that the diamond engagement ring fever was invented by an ad campaign in the 1930s and that before that few Americans proposed with the precious stone, and the price of diamond was falling
rwle TIL pro basketball player Latrell Sprewell’s career ended when he refused a $21-million three-year contract offer from the Timberwolves, which he implied would not be enough to feed his children.