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TIL that rockstar Alice Cooper used to babysit Keanu Reeves.

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yVjjM TIL American writer Cormac McCarthy wrote 10 books and an estimated 5 million words on a 1963 Olivetti Lettera 32 typewriter. It sold at auction in 2009 for $254,500. The next day McCarthy received the same model from a friend as a replacement that cost $20.
e0Ng5 TIL In WW2 on D Day, the Germans had a devastating thermobaric weapon called Taifun B, based on kerosene & coal dust, to be delivered over the battlefield by rocket propelled canisters. They positioned it in Calais, so it didn’t get used against the landings.
gD64 TIL of General Butt Naked who led his troops naked into war, plucked innocent children’s hearts out to eat, chopped the heads of hundreds of people to use as soccer balls and ritually sacrificed teenagers. After the war,he claimed to have found religion and repented. He is now a preacher in Liberia.
xPDD TIL The King of Swaizland banned sex for Swazi maidens under 18 years old but just two months after imposing the ban, he violated his decree when he married a 17-year-old girl, who became his 13th wife. As per custom, he was fined a cow by members of her regiment, which he duly paid.
VBYmQ TIL: There is a Hall and Oates hotline you can call to listen to some of their greatest hits