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TIL that due to shortages penicillin was re-extracted from patients’ urine during World War II

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E1DW TIL Macaulay Culkin, child star of the Home Alone films, bought Marilyn Manson his first pack of cigarettes during the filming of Party Monster in 2003. He said he thought this ironic as Manson is meant to be seen as an ‘anarchist’ and it’s Culkin corrupting him.
pKpG TIL of George Stinney, the youngest person ever executed in America, at 14. He was wrongly charged for murder after finding the bodies of two white girls in South Carolina.
ymMl TIL that after Marilyn Monroe converted to Judaism upon marrying Arthur Miller, Egypt placed a ban on all the films she appeared in.
wL71E TIL that there is mathematical proof that we are all descendants of both royalty and a whole lot of nobodies.
yV09l TIL There isn’t a single stop sign in Paris