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TIL Carrie Fisher was addicted to cocaine AND survived an overdose during the filming of The Empire Strikes Back.

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KYMA4 TIL older woman sometimes have purple hair because they have added purple pigments to balance out yellow tones. This makes hair white unless the over do it - which is why it ends up purple.
4yy6 TIL Tokyo’s Mitsui Garden Yotsuya hotel offers ‘crying rooms’ only to women. Y. Ezato, the PR representative for the hotel, says with more Japanese women succeeding in the workforce, it’s causing a rise in female stress/anxiety. The rooms include tear-jerking movies, luxurious tissues & warm sheets
WLNY TIL: A woman was raised by monkeys after being kidnapped and abandoned in jungle when she was 4
kEGW TIL that in 1912, there were more cars powered by electricity than gasoline
mxdZM TIL that during a NASA auction in 1976, an intern called G. George bought 218$ worth of film roll. It turns out that they were original videotape recordings of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Sotheby's has since resold it for about 1.8 million dollars.