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TIL that Donald Glover’s twitter account used to be @donglover

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X0MYQ TIL that during a murder trial in 1994 an English jury got drunk and consulted an Ouija board to determine the killer. This led to a retrial.
gQXX TIL that cockroaches’ exoskeletons allow them to withstand weights up to 900 times their body weight
4kX6o TIL about the HMS Dreadnought. The only ship ever to sink a submarine by ramming into it.
xVaKo TIL that hospitals in the US report a 24% spike in heart attack visits due to patients getting one hour less of sleep when switching to daylight saving time
dDZQ7 TIL that Gordon Lightfoot's song, Sundown, was a cautionary tale about his onetime girlfriend, the backup singer Cathy Smith, who was later convicted in the overdose death of the comedy star John Belushi after she injected him with heroin and cocaine in 1982.