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TIL Alice Cooper was a close friend of Groucho Marx, helping Marx through bouts of insomnia in the 1970s.

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kOxE TIL JFK’s “year-round tan” was caused by Addison’s disease.
9YnQ6 TIL Jackie Chan’s Dad Was a Spy Who Met His Opium-Dealing Mom During an Arrest
QD6p TIL that the Gatling gun was invented by a doctor who noticed that the majority of soldiers died in the civil war due to diseases not gun shot wounds
88PV TIL there are more atoms in a grain of sand, than there are grains of sand on Earth
M7048 TIL a Chinese teenager defaced a stone sculpture in ancient Egyptian Luxor Temple with graffiti. An embarrassed Chinese traveller photographed it and shared on Weibo. It took just a day before outraged netizens tracked the teenager down in his hometown forcing his parents to apologize for him.