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TIL that in 1966, 29-yr-old folk-singer Richard Fariña died in a motorcycle accident just two days after the release of his debut novel, "Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me". The book became a cult classic, and has been cited as a source of inspiration for many artists, such as The Doors.

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Egdoo TIL that in 1890 an anticlerical journalist (Leo Taxil) pulled off a 12-year prank to humiliate the Vatican involving: inventing a cult of satanic Freemasons, paying his typist to play the part of a Luciferian Templar Mistress, revealing it all to have been a hoax once the Vatican had endorsed it.
KYJMB TIL despite being portrayed as young and healthy, John F. Kennedy was hospitalized dozens of times and on three occasions given his last rites.
QJPrL TIL if you clap your hands at the base of a Chichen Itza pyramid, it makes a “bird” sound.
8d8L TIL There is a $44,000 salary cap for doormen in NYC
VBlEZ TIL Lucuis Quinctius Cincinnatus was voted dictator during a desperate war with the Aequi around 458 BC. He assumed complete control of the state, achieved victory in 16 days, relinquished his powers and returned to his farm. He may have been appointed dictator again to suppress an "uprising of the