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TIL Jon Bon Jovi avoided property taxes by raising bees so that he could classify his mansion as a farm.

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MpBa TIL Johnny Depp adopted his horse GoldenEye from the Legend of Sleepy Hollow. After hearing the one eyed horse was to be put to sleep, Depp jumped in and adopted him.
Lk8Jv TIL that over the last decade, there have been at least 15 cases of athletes who have died from over-hydration during sporting events. Too much fluid consumption can cause serious health issues by diluting the sodium in the blood, which creates a swelling of the brain and lungs
BaMK TIL Walt Disney received one full-size Oscar for Snow White—as well as seven miniature ones
e04kL TIL a pilot drunkenly stole and landed planes on the streets of Manhattan twice in the 1950s. The first was to prove how quickly he could get to NYC from NJ. The second was because a bar patron didn't believe his first story.
gMvPD TIL the bluest blue (to date) was accidentally discovered when a researcher received a grant to explore novel materials for electronics applications and tried to heat together oxides of manganese, yttrium, and indium at two thousand degrees Fahrenheit