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TIL Nicolas Cage bought a “haunted house” in Louisiana where dozens of slaves were tortured and killed. He then lost it to foreclosure in 2009.

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v1m9K TIL that Rosemary Kennedy - little sister to JFK - developed violent moodswings at 23. Their father secretly took Rosemary to the notorious surgeon Walter Freeman, who used an ice pick to disconnect her frontal lobes. The lobotomy disabled her & she spent the rest of her life in an institution.
dQ9r TIL there’s more than 4 times as many cattle in South Dakota as there are people
LkvV9 TIL - only three women have appeared on UK Bank Notes (excluding the Queen) - Florence Nightingale £10.00 (1975), Elizabeth Fry £5.00 (2002) & Jane Austen £10.00 (2017). Twleve men have appeared by contrast.
OweR TIL in 1998 Bill O'Reilly wrote a novel about a tall, bitter, sexually predatory newsman who gets forced out of his job and starts murdering former colleagues who helped to ruin his career.
nWwNW Today I learned that you need 64,000 gallons of oil per year to run the amount of wind turbines that match the energy output of 1 900 mw nuclear power plant.