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TIL Ozzy Osbourne was diagnosed with Parkinson’ disease in February 2019

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mxQQM TIL Al Goldstein an American pornographer, In 1989, ran a full page ad in "Screw" offering $1 million for the assassination of the Ayatollah Khomeini, in response to Khomeini's fatwa against novelist Salman Rushdie for allegedly blaspheming Islam.
LkAv TIL that Eminem turned to Elton John for help during his drug addiction, and they still stay in contact to this day.
N7Be6 TIL of Charondas, a Greek lawgiver from Sicily, that issued a law that anyone who brought weapons into the Assembly must be put to death. One day, he arrived at the Assembly after hunting in the countryside with a knife still attached to his belt. In order to uphold his own law, he committed suicide
j67RX TIL according to legend Thomas Nelson Jr., a Founding Father and Revolutionary War general, ordered his artillery to direct their fire on his own house during the siege of Yorktown because it was occupied by British General Cornwallis, offering five guineas to the first man who hit the house.
ndQ7 TIL that Patrick Stewart lost all of his hair at age 18 and thought that no woman would ever be interested in him again