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TIL Orville Redenbacher died from drowning in his Jacuzzi.

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REG4 TIL the melted butter topping served in movie theaters is mostly canola oil with additives mixed in
MeagK TIL New Orleans architectural historian Samuel Wilson, Jr. stated that the term "shotgun" house is a reference to the idea that if all the doors are opened, a shotgun blast fired into the house from the front doorway will fly cleanly to the other end and out at the back.
nWXnY TIL that the song bittersweet symphony by The verve was based on a rolling stone song
D1E1p TIL the 35-yr-old owner of a boat called "Naut Guilty" was found not guilty in a boating incident. Another man was at the helm who failed to put the boat into neutral as a 19-yr-old woman swam near the boat; she lost her arm in the propeller. Both men pleaded guilty to furnishing alcohol to minors.
7rkbr TIL that in 1913, Freud, Trotsky, Lenin, Stalin and Hitler were all living in the same neighborhood in Vienna, Austro at the same time.