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TIL that famed author William S. Burroughs "accidentally" shot his wife in the head in what he claimed was a drunken reenactment of William Tell

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GADo5 TIL that people who spend a lot of time around birds are prone to Bird Fancier’s Lung, which can cause shortness of breath, fever, dry cough, chest pain, weight loss, fatigue, and pulmonary fibrosis. It’s caused by inhaling proteins found in dried bird droppings and feathers.
J9N1 TIL as an April Fool’s joke, Audi once advertised a car with a built-in rice cooker in Japan
0DPN TIL of SecureDrop, a secure way for whistleblowers to leak documents to the press, written by Aaron Swartz and used by media outlets worldwide
Lkpop TIL Japan refuses to recognize its WW2 military atrocities. Instead, they argue it was a war to "liberate" Asian countries from Western imperialism. Even the educational curriculum censors and downplays Japanese war crimes.
16bDD TIL that “The Cloister and the Hearth,” a historical novel written in 1861 by Charles Reade, was the favorite book of both Thomas Wolfe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Rudyard Kipling & Oscar Wilde loved it; George Orville couldn’t stand it. It’s a tale of forbidden love, adventure, betrayal, & action.