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TIL That Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Tom Hanks have colonoscopy parties together

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Wk9MN TIL Pearl Jam has been calculating the carbon footprint from their tours since 2003, and have donated enough to environmental projects to counter that.
6koQ TIL Lola Montez, an Irish woman who passed herself off as Spanish, had affairs with Franz Liszt, Alexandre Dumas & the king of Bavaria (who made her countess, triggering a popular uprising and his own abdication), and later lived in Australia and the US Far West, all before dying at 40
jQmM TIL that only once in history has one submarine deliberately sunk another submerged submarine
wyW6 TIL of “resiniferatoxin”, a naturally occurring chemical that is 7273 times hotter than any pepper in the world, and 1000 times hotter than pure capsaisin. It books in at 16 trillion Scoville units
OGa7a TIL I learned that the fledgling Casablanca Records was saved from extinction by singing Donna Summer after the label went $7 million in debt on a live album of Johnny Carson which returned more copies than sold.