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TIL that Tim Curry has been wheelchair bound since having a stroke in 2013.

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9XlX Austrian mathematician Kurt Gödel had an obsessive fear of being poisoned, and would only eat food that his wife prepared for him. When she had to be hospitalized for six months in 1977, he refused to eat at all and died weighing 65 pounds.
R5lO8 TIL that the backup singer for Guns N’ Roses’ “Don’t Cry” is Blind Melon’s Shannon Hoon.
0NvL TIL that Janissaries would place spoons on their hats in order to symbolize “The Brotherhood of the Spoon”. It was meant to further emphasize that Janissaries would live, eat, and fight together.
xVxp0 TIL about Denny, the first remains discovered of a half-Denisovan, half-Neanderthal human
e0p64 TIL that Iran's government subsides gender reassignment surgery and considers sex change surgery to be acceptable