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TIL of "bone music": sold on the Soviet black market, etched onto discarded X-Rays

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7rWYb TIL that the 2003 Cat In The Hat movie was so bad that Dr Seuss’s widow specifically said that she wouldn’t allow any more live action adaptations of his work.
XEPeX TIL Oscar Wilde was a wildly popular Irish writer in the late 1800's. A rival hired a detective to catch him in "acts of sodomy and gross indecency". He served 2 years hard labor in prison for his "crimes". He suffered terribly and almost starved to death. He died at age 46.
91QM TIL that the Romans substituted real criminals into plays for punishment, so if a character died in the play’s story or plot, a real criminal would die on stage.
Lk1Dp TIL that Keanu Reeves runs a private charitable foundation to fund cancer research and children’s hospitals. In 2009, he told Ladies Home Journal: "I don’t like to attach my name to it, I just let the foundation do what it does."
kJOb5 TIL humans have no sense for wetness, only temperature and pressure