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691jX TIL 19-year-old Matilda Scheurer, a Victorian-era factory worker, died after regular exposure to Scheele's Green, a popular arsenic-based dye used in various common items at the time. She died after allegedly vomiting green, while the whites of her eyes and her fingernails turned green.
5XKD TIL in 1954, archaeologists excavating an 8th-century Viking settlement in Sweden found a Buddha statuette from India
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neyYo TIL the lead guitarist on James Brown’s “Living in America” was Stevie Ray Vaughan. When he first heard the final mix, he was angry that his playing was buried in the mix.
8RkV TIL Willem DaFoe was expelled from high school for making a porno