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TIL: Bradley Nowell, the lead singer of the band “Sublime”, died on May 25th, 1996 from an accidental heroin overdose. He was 28 years old and had gotten married a week before his death.

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Oooje Toxic air is already a serious problem for Americans. Every year, about 200,000 people in the U.S. suffer an early death because of air pollution, according to a 2013 study, and poisonous particles have also been connected to lung and heart disease.
D7wv TIL In the 1960s, a convent in L.A. agreed to a psychology experiment where the nuns were encouraged to verbalize and respond to their emotions. Within a year more than half the nuns had petitioned to be released from their vows and all that remained was a “small group of radical lesbian nuns.”
9MVp TIL ancient Egypt had many medical specialists, including proctologists which were called “shepherds of the anus”.
GYw97 TIL the Portuguese, who began the Atlantic Slave Trade, first began kidnapping west Africans and taking the enslaved back to Europe as early as the 15th century.
JNY1 TIL there’s a food in China called ‘virgin boy eggs’ which are eggs soaked in the urine of school aged boys.