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TIL James O'Barr (the Crow) has changed his story about his fiancee's death over the years, in 1994 he claimed that she was a high school girlfriend

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x69g0 TIL that Radithor was a "medicine" sold in the 1920s that consisted of water with a bit of dissolved radium. One user, Eben Byers, drank so much of it that most of his jaw literally fell off.
7OLP TIL Lion tamers use chairs because lions are wired mentally to focus on one thing and attack it, with the four prongs of a chair coming at it, it totally flips its shit and backs off.
Ego1V TIL that most managers do not get any management training
neGEP TIL That Joseph Stalin was only 5'4" tall, and he often wore stacked shoes and stood on platforms to make himself appear taller.
5Nnn TIL that Charles Darwin was one of the first scientists to demonstrate the effects of inbreeding depression, with his own children. Darwin’s wife was his first cousin.