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TIL Marylin Manson has been sober for 4 years. He went sober 4 days after he was accused of s*xual assault in 2021.

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0XaM TIL that carnivorous animals will not eat other animals that have been struck by lightning
ADbKx TIL of the most famous person ever to have literally been in a pickle, Horatio Nelson. He died at sea, so the surgeon on board pickled his body in brandy to preserve it for the long trip to England. 2 weeks into the journey, gaseous pressures burst the cask lid, making Nelson "rise from the dead."
8aAY4 TIL In 1972, Neil Armstrong visited the town of Langholm, Scotland. In which he was read a 400 year old law declaring any Armstrong caught in the town should be hanged
R5R7Q TIL; That Peter Jackson director of Lord of the Rings - Built an entire movieset replica of Frodo baggins hobbit hole house "bag-end" underneath his new zealand mansion, and you get there via a secret wine cellar tunnel; Not only that, but Danny Divito also visits him regularly to hang out there.
xJ8b TIL of the legend of Sir Francis Drake’s drum. It is said that on his deathbed he requested that the drum be returned to his manor and that, if ever England were to come under attack, one would beat the drum, he would return to protect the country.