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TIL that Mozart composed a song titled “Lick Me in the Ass”.

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KbQa TIL that Waylon Jennings claimed to have spent $1,500 daily to satisfy his addiction to cocaine, draining his personal finances and leaving him bankrupt with debt of up to $2.5 million.
QxoX TIL in 1884 there were four men stranded on a lifeboat without food or water. After 20 days, two of the men decided to kill and eat the weakest. Four days later, the men were picked up and rescued. The two men that killed and ate their crew member were later charged and found guilty of murder.
JYXOv TIL U-2 Spy planes requires chase cars that can accelerate 0-100mph in a short period of time at both landing and take-off.
grZm7 TIL less than a month before 18 year old Ty Cobb started his rookie season with the Detroit Tigers, his father was shot and killed on the porch of their home. The killer was Cobb’s mother. She claimed she thought he was an intruder. She was charged with murder but later acquitted.
e0GvD TIL that lacking access to saltwater or salt deposits, the remote Apatani tribe of Northeast India have made use of a homemade salt substitute called tapyo, It is made from shrubs and ash.