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TIL people with “baby faces” tend to live longer healthier lives than those who look their age.

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AZKn TIL The spooky droning gibberish played in the end credits of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy is creator Maxwell Atoms talking backwards saying: “No, no. This is the end of the show. You’re watching it backwards.”
9JxB TIL American prisons produce: 100% of all military helmets, ammunition belts, bullet proof vests, 93% of domestically used paints, 36% of home appliances, 21% of office furniture, which allows America to compete with factories in Mexico.
l7jo5 TIL that the autopsy concluded that Layne Staley (Alice in Chains vocalist) died two weeks before his body was found, on April 5, the same day his grunge colleague Kurt Cobain died eight years earlier.
D1QOJ TIL the 550 Porsche Spyder that killed James Dean is believed to be cursed. Actor Alec Guinness told Dean he’d be “dead by this time next week if he got in that car.” Seven days later Dean would be killed by his beloved ‘Little Bastard’ Porsche. And he wasn’t the only life claimed by the cursed car.
0nnM TIL the term “gerrymandering” derives from Gov. Elbridge Gerry who in 1812 redrew the Massachusetts senatorial districts to favor his Federalist Party. One of these redrawn districts looked like a salamander, thus Gerry + salamander = gerrymander