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TIL That wrestling legend Superstar Billy Graham sold his WWE Hall of Fame ring on eBay because he was pissed at Vince McMahon.

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ANQa7 TIL People diagonised with avoidant / restrictive food intake disorder give up on their will to eat
PYevG TIL that Las Vegas's MGM Grand Hotel & Casino had its worst financial week ever when it hosted a physicist convention
AD014 TIL that the 1st title of “Where the Wild Things Are” was “Where the Wild Horses Are” - until Sendak realized he could not draw a horse. So he drew the Wild Things, modeled after his relatives.
MeZLA TIL a Canadian engineer studying anti-ballistic missile systems developed a theoretical method for launching satellites via canon. He was likely assassinated by the Mossad in 1990
8aAgP TIL Less than a year before Ernest Hemingway killed himself with a shotgun, he became paranoid and thought the FBI was following him. It later turned out that head of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, had, in fact, gotten an agent to watch Hemingway in Havana, Cuba, in the 1950s.