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TIL Seth Rogen testified before Congress to call for financing care for sufferers of Alzheimer’s disease and that he has a charity for the same called “Hilarity for Charity”

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kOkKW TIL that Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, eldest brother of Claus, one of the primary architects of the July 20 plot to assassinate Hitler, was also executed for his own participation. He was strangled and revived multiple times, and the whole process was filmed for Hitler to view later.
Owla TIL that Boston police confused an LED display, with a picture of a cartoon character on it, for a bomb in 2007. This caused the Boston police to shut down part of a highway, part of the public transportation system, and costing $2M worth of “havoc in the city”
p8884 TIL that making a purple pigment used to dye clothes for royalty in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome involved harvesting the pigment from rotting snails. The stench was so bad that Jewish law specifically granted women the right to divorce any husband who became a dyer after marrying.
wLgwE TIL that Walt Disney told his friend, famous entertainer Art Linkletter about his plans to build Disneyland and advised him to buy adjoining properties. Linkletter declined and said that he remembered his walk back to the car because it "probably cost me about a million dollars a foot"
6EKo8 TIL for 26 years, German feminists Ottilie Assing and African-American Abolitionist Frederick Douglass were believed to be having an affair. I’m August 1884, after learning Douglass remarried to Helen Pitts, Assing killed herself by swallowing cyanide in a public park in Paris.