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TIL Al Lewis, the actor who played Grandpa on The Munsters, had Charles Manson babysit his children

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V7GD TIL Mike Kurtz, an american burglar, found out that eating common soap could produce the effect of ill health. His sudden and unexplainable weight loss and other symptoms baffled the prison doctors and he was able to fool officials that he was dying and received a pardon.
Ypm4x TIL that Frank Goldsmith, Jr., a Titanic survivor who later lived near Navin Field (Tiger Stadium) in Detroit, never took his children to baseball games because the roar of the crowd reminded him of the screams of people dying in the freezing water.
X0Q9P TIL in 1909 Governor of Hong Kong proposed returning British Weihaiwei to China in return for perpetual rule of all of Hong Kong. His proposal was ignored by British government, and both Weihaiwei and Hong Kong returned to China eventually
Kj04 TIL: Scott Adams (Dilbert) once wore “a wig and false mustache, [and] successfully impersonated a management consultant and tricked Logitech managers into adopting a mission statement that Adams described as "so impossibly complicated that it has no real content whatsoever”.“
ANVbg TIL: Aluminum soda cans are lined by a thin layer of plastic on the inside.