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TIL Karl Marx’s grave has an entry fee

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e0mnk TIL one of this site’s co-founders committed suicide in 2013 after facing up to 50 years in prison for illegally downloading over 4 million academic articles. He was 26 years old.
Eg6Ww TIL the movements typically associated with Parkinson's Disease are actually a side effect of the medication Levodopa prescribed to increase dopamine and not PD itself; these movements are called dyskinesia, whereas PD causes stiffness, slowness and tremor
154W TIL when Columbus first sailed to America his ship’s captain (Rodrigo de Triana) spotted land first but Columbus later claimed he had already seen it a few hours earlier, thereby claiming for himself the lifetime pension that had been promised by King Ferdinand to the first person to sight land.
lvlV TIL that Dave Mustaine, Megadeth singer/guitarist, had to re-teach his left hand how to play guitar in 2002. He was diagnosed with radial neuropathy after falling asleep with his arm over the back of a chair leaving him unable to make a fist.
m5oY TIL that today is National Eggnog Day. Happy Eggnog Day All