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TIL In Kurt Cobain’s suicide note, he quoted a Neil Young song saying “It’s better to burn out than fade away”. Neil Young said that “it fucked with me” and he had actually been trying to get in touch with Cobain around when his suicide happened, in order to offer encouragement.

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OoO0g TIL of Marthanda Varma, the ruler of Travancore who battled and won against the Dutch East India Company in 1741. The Dutch never recovered from the defeat and no longer posed a large colonial threat to India.
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