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TIL about Grammy winning musician Janis Ian. At 16, while on tour & after performing late at night on a tv show, she fell asleep on her chaperone's (a female family friend) lap. Bill Cosby saw this, pronounced her a "lesbian", and actively attempted to blacklist her from all television.

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4XAEo TIL Why paper cuts are so painful is b/c at a microscopic level, paper is actually quite rough. A knife makes a straight cut, but paper acts like a saw blade and does more damage to cells and nerve endings. Paper also leaves behind tiny fibres and chemical residues, irritating the wound even more.
QJABd TIL in 2016, a previously unknown room was discovered in the Winchester Mystery House, bringing the total number of rooms to 161. The mansion has 47 staircases, 47 fireplaces, and over 10,000 windows.
jKZn TIL that Australian woman, Katherine Knight, stabbed her partner, Then proceeded to skin his body, put his head in a pot, and attempted to feed his flesh to his two children. The coroner also stated, that he was so perfectly skinned, that they were able to stitch the skin back onto his skinless body
R7dy4 TIL that dog and cat feces is a better fertilizer than most manures because of it's high phosphorus content.
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