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TIL Days before his death Edgar Allan Poe was found delirious on the streets of Baltimore and how he came to be like this has remained a mystery. It’s been suggested he may have been a victim of “cooping” in which unwilling participants are drugged and forced to vote for a particular candidate..

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JY0Qv TIL that the United States coexisted with the Holy Roman Empire for thirty years until its dissolution in 1806.
O9R1 TIL: Four years after it was released, an Arizona DJ played UB40’s “Red Red Wine” as part of a feature on songs that should have been hits. Listeners started requesting it and within weeks it was the national #1 single
Lkvjm TIL that Cillian Murphy was vegetarian for about 15 years prior to working on Peaky Blinders. Saying it was never a moral decision. It was more that he was worried about getting mad cow disease.
W0p4 TIL Buzz Aldrin was the first man to curse on the moon when he said to Neil Armstrong “Bloody hell, I’ve just taken a shit in my space suit.”
GAeYJ TIL that sloths can die of starvation with a full stomach.