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TIL Rick Moranis, beloved comedian who retired to raise his family in the late 80’s, is a semi-active musician

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OGadL TIL in "A Sunday on La Grande" (pointillism picnic painting), the monkey symbolizes lust and the woman fishing is a pun for prostitute.
v1L9L TIL there is a genetic form of insomnia called Fatal Familial Insomnia which results in the inability to sleep, hallucinations, and eventual death of the patient with a few years.
OVpe TIL that two black men, Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace, have been in solitary confinement in Louisiana for over 40 years despite despite lack of evidence for their alleged crime.
61Kw TIL Cheech Marin beat Yale graduate Anderson Cooper and Dartmouth graduate Aisha Tyler at Celebrity Jeopardy.
Mg60 TIL there was a Jewish boxer named Salamo Arouch imprisoned at Auschwitz. While there, he was forced to fight bouts against other prisoners, the losers of which were sent to the gas chambers or shot. He survived over 2 years and 200 bouts, eventually being released when the camp was liberated.