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TIL Robin Williams' widow wrote an appraisal of his disease in the journal Neurology

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rRWWo TIL organizers of the Woodstock festival claimed to the authorities in Bethel, NY, that less than 50,000 people would turn up, despite selling 186,000 tickets in advance. The festival ultimately drew an audience of over 400,000, and both Bethel and NY State banned such events in its wake.
kyD4 TIL It would take a person 59 days straight to count to one million. A man named Jeremy Harper counted to up to it for charity in 2007. He counted for 16 hours a day and raised $10,000 (one penny per number).
4XeR TIL that an orangutan named Fu Manchu repeatedly escaped from his cage at the zoo using a key he had fashioned from a piece of wire. Every time his zookeepers inspected him, he hid the key in his mouth.
XEyR6 TIL The so-called "Dancing Doctor", who filmed "instructional" music videos during surgery had her license suspended for 2 1/2 years in 2018 after several patients were severely scarred (one was brain damaged) and it was discovered that she was a dermatologist and not a board certified surgeon.
nELW TIL former astronaut Buzz Aldrin once punched a moon landing hoax conspiracy theorist in the face