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TIL that bowling balls used to be made with asbestos in an effort to dispose of by-product waste from brake pad manufacture.

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QJ1N6 TIL that the FBI once sent Martin Luther King Jr. a threatening letter encouraging him to commit suicide.
YapA TIL That when Napoléon I emancipated the Jews he stated “I will never accept any proposals that will obligate the Jewish people to leave France, because to me the Jews are the same as any other citizen in our country” the Russian Orthodox Church labelled him as the ‘Anti-Christ and The Enemy of God’
YpKGx TIL Shakespeare's most published work in his lifetime was not any of his plays, but his poem Venus and Adonis, with ten editions of the poem published before he died. As much as 40% of Shakespeare's works published in his lifetime consisted of his poems alone.
mxVxM TIL M'lady/Fedora guys is Jerry Messing. Before his internet stardom he was the child actor who played Pugsley in Addams Family Reunion as well as Gordon Crisp, the smelly kid in Freaks and Geeks.
6gKW TIL that in 1966 Paul McCartney penned a song under the name Bernard Webb to see if he could produce a hit without his name. It was recorded by Peter and Gordon and reached #14 on the charts.