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TIL The taxidermied body of the original Cocaine Bear is allowed to officiate weddings in Kentucky.

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wlj1 TIL although close friends who collaborated on four hugely successful films, after the filming of ‘Groundhog Day’, Bill Murray refused to speak to writer/director Harold Ramis until on his deathbed in 2014
Eg5WW TIL that Johnny Marks was a Jewish songwriter who wrote "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", "A Holly Jolly Christmas", "Rocking Around the Christmas Tree" and other iconic Christmas songs.
lE6a TIL A South Korean subway driver told passengers to remain inside while a fire was spreading in the station. He then fled with the master key leaving the train doors closed and sealing passengers inside. Out of 198 people who died in the station, 79 were trapped in his train.
j6jgv TiL that bog bodies (natural mummies) have formed inadvertently as recently as 1945
WOOL TIL a boy was scalped by a Sioux chief, Little Turtle, and lived to tell about it. His scalpless head was photographed 30 years later.