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TIL an entire family was killed by rotting potatoes.

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j6yEM TIL about NH 96566-KN The First Computer Bug, a moth found in a computer, 1947
XkkQ TIL the Mormon church spent 1.5 billion dollars on a shopping mall this past year.
kOxwd TIL that John Mulaney started drinking at 13 years old and that the psychiatrist his parents made him go see as a teenager once described him as “one part nice kid, one part gorilla that wants to kill the other half.”
neAXo TIL a young Frank Sinatra tried to get out of his contract with bandleader Tommy Dorsey. When Dorsey refused Sinatra’s offer of $60,000, mobster Willie Moretti allegedly threatened Dorsey. Afterwards, Dorsey let Sinatra out of his contract for $1.
5mbp TIL that in 1969, in response to one of the largest ever anti-war demonstrations, Richard Nixon wanted Army helicopters to hover over protesters and blow out their candlelit vigil