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TIL Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols and actor Philip Seymour Hoffman both died of heroin overdoses within just a five-minute walk from each other in New York City, and exactly 35 years to the day apart.

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MedZ7 TIL about the plunge for distance, a short-lived olympic swim event where competitors jumped from the edge of the pool and floated motionless as far as possible. It was criticized as "not an athletic event at all" since competitors "merely throw themselves heavily into the water and float along".
D10JV TIL Days before Caesar's assassination, he said the best way to die would be suddenly and unexpectedly. One of the assassins was sitting right next to him.
dLYd TIL in 1990 disabled activists got out of their wheelchairs and crawled up the steps of the Capitol, inconveniencing Senators to encourage a vote on the Americans with Disabilities Act.
O17L TIL The Rhinoceros Party of Canada was a real political party that advocated for declaring war on Belgium, making the Trans-Canada Highway one-way only, repealing the Law of Gravity, and counting the Thousand Islands to see if the Americans had stolen any.