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TiL the Nirvana song "About a Girl" was written by Kurt Cobain about his then girlfriend Tracy Marander, partially inspired by their fights over Cobain's refusal to do household chores. She didn't know the song was about her until reading a biography on the band.

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VBRB4 TIL that Alexander Hamilton (a Scottish duke, not the Founding Father) was so interested in Egyptian mummies, he had himself mummified after death and put in a Ptolemaic sarcophagus.
Qmne TIL that in Raiders of the Lost Ark, they limited the onscreen blood from gun shots during the truck chase by using fine red dust instead of liquid fake blood. Unfortunately, the only red dust available for the squibs was Cayenne Pepper, which caused a lot of suffering for the stunt crew.
e0pE5 TIL Judge Judy is the highest paid actor on TV, making $47 million per year.
DQQYj TIL a 3-milligram dose of fentanyl (right in the picture) is enough to kill an average-sized adult male, for heroin it is 30 milligrams (left)
KYAkR TIL a policeman William Potts invented the first tri-colour, four-directional traffic signal in 1920 in Motor City (Detroit).