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TIL of Elmer McCurdy; a funhouse prop that turned out to be a real corpse

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PYKoO TIL Rage Against The Machine Guitarist Tom Morello's Mother is a 97 year old Anti-Censorship Activist who founded the Parents for Rock and Rap - to Counter Tipper Gore's Pro-Censorship PMRC.
mR1x TIL of neuroscientist James Fallon. While examining brain scans from both Alzheimer’s patients and violent psychopaths, he used his family’s scans as a control. One family scan displayed the structure of a psychopath’s brain. After breaking anonymity, he realized the scan was his own.
oR1oA TIL the Rolling Stones had a helpful US Mayor, who persuaded RI authorities to release the band into his personal custody, enabling them to make their scheduled Boston appearance. He then urged fans to keep the peace... which they did...
l7Wk5 TIL that in the early 19th century, the bones of soldiers and horses from the Battle of Waterloo were used to whiten brown sugar into refined white sugar.
e59J TIL of “Benny’s Rules”, a complex, incorrect “mathematics” a student came up with that enabled him to pass math tests for years