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TIL Eric Clapton was long-conned by a witch who got him to take herbal baths, smear his own blood, & chant midnight incantations, all with a phone call. She convinced him to fly to the US to have sex with a virgin (herself), began asking for money, then sent pregnant pics of herself to the tabloids.

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OVPa TIL There were two brothers that were such compulsive horders they had managed to amass over 140 tons of items before one was killed by falling debris
d1mZ TIL to avenge the kidnapping of a group of British subjects, the British Empire mobilised 39,000 men and 40,000 work animals, traversed 400 miles of mountainous terrain, sacked the offending king’s capital, and then returned home.
wKbo TIL: In 2011 a pod of sperm whales temporarily adopted a deformed bottlenose dolphin
gMK94 TIL A football is a prolate spheroid, and it’s shaped that way because that’s also the shape of an inflated pig’s bladder, which is what the first footballs were made of
oRxE7 TIL: 81-year-old folk singer Bob Dylan is still actively touring and simultaneously a very prolific visual artist. In 2022 he created a full size boxcar welded out of ornate wrought iron, his largest piece yet.