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TIL that Beauty Sleep is a real thing, according to doctors. A survey shows that 42% of rested individuals enhanced their Beauty.

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p8WaO TIL Arsenic used to be so undetectable and popular a poison that it was nicknamed the "inheritance powder"
pvd4 TIL that the Urban Dictionary was uploaded to Watson (Jeopardy AI) and it started swearing
1aOEW TIL in nautical terms, the chain that attaches to the corner of a sail is known as a "sheet". The expression "three sheets to the wind", which implies that someone is inebriated, refers to those chains being loose, allowing the sail to wave around wildly in the wind like a drunk.
WPO4 TIL that Margaret Cho was rejected by a producer on her show All American Girl. Still heart broken, she looked him up 17 years later to find out that he had bludgeoned his wife to death and put her in his attic where she partially mummified. She wrote a song about him.
9ooG TIL, Irene Triplett is still collecting her father’s military Civil War pension at $73.13 each month.