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TIL in a 1955 interview, James Dean talked about safe driving and his last line was ‘Take it easy, the life you might save might be mine’

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mNVp TIL police in Germany hunted a sinister phantom killer for two years after finding the same DNA at 39 different crime scenes - only to discover that the source was a woman who made the cotton buds used to collect the sample!
5Y678 TIL of Lady Margaret Beaufort, the mother of King Henry VII. She had her son at just 13 years old after marrying Edmund Tudor, who was 12 years her senior. He died of the plague when she was seven months pregnant. Since she was so young, the birth was extremely difficult.
6E8KZ TIL that when the English potter, Josiah Wedgwood, spotted inferior work in his pottery plant, he would frequently dump it on the factory floor and crush it with his peg leg saying, "This will not do for Josiah Wedgwood!"
V4w0 TIL: Linje Akvavit, a flavored liquor from Norway, is shipped from Norway to Australia and back before being bottled. The sloshing and temperature changes the liquor experiences on the ship imparts certain flavors to the beverage. Akvavit is traditionally served as a holiday drink.
bOmE TIL Frank Zappa was approached by a crazed fan with a gun. Zappa persuaded him into walking with him, and numerous others. to a nearby lake. He then persuaded everyone present to start throwing things into the water, including the attacker, who threw in his gun.