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TIL Nicolas Cage will be buried in a pyramid.

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KOZVw TIL in 2001 Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shot and killed twelve members of his royal family, including the King and Queen, then shot himself in the head. Dipendra was crowned king while in a coma, then died 3 days later where his cousin, Gyanendra, would take the crown and is still ruling today.
x0Rg TIL Actor Mickey Rourke attributed his comeback to his dogs and credit them during his Golden Globe acceptance speech in 09: “sometimes when a man’s alone, that’s all you got is your dog, and they’ve meant the world to me.”
N76K1 TIL that mixing alcohol with cocaine starts a chemical reaction in your liver, producing cocaethylene (a stronger longer lasting form of cocaine). After some time it is released back into your bloodstream. This is why some people can overdose after they already seem safely passed out.
yv1p TIL Seattle is planning to build a new city park filled with hundreds of edible plants- such as fruit trees, vegetable plants, herbs, etc- which will be free to everyone. If successful, it will be the first “Urban Food Forest” of the nation.
epygb TIL Robert Todd Lincoln was present at two Presidential assassinations, his father’s not one of them. He also had his life saved by the brother of John Wilkes Booth.