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TIL that L.A.-based commercial artist and Vietnam War veteran Patrick Nagel, who became famous the 1980s for his art of women for 'Playboy' and Duran Duran's 1982 album 'Rio', died of a heart attack after a celebrity Aerobathon in 1984, aged 38.

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kOjJg TIL Shakespeare invented the “yo momma” joke. In his play Titus Andronicus, one of the characters, Chiron, exclaims “Thou has undone our mother” to which another character, Aaron, replies “Villain, I have done thy mother.”
rNn4 TIL In September 1987, citizens in Rio De Janeiro discovered 22 tons worth of sealed 2-pound cans of marijuana washed ashore along their beaches after suspected drug smugglers ditched their cargo. Out of those cans, only 20 were ever turned into the police.
oBn0R TIL a Dutch man named Jan de Doot, in 1651, removed his own bladder stone with a kitchen knife. He pulled it out through an incision he made in his perineum. It was the size of an egg and weighed a quarter of a pound. He lived for years after, and had the stone plated in gold.
OG0vR TIL: Divers searching for a sunken World War II-era aircraft, instead came across a 15 by 15-foot section of the Challenger Space Shuttle 37 years after it exploded off the Florida coast. After the explosion, the salvage effort had recovered 47% of the shuttle.
4k4Bo TIL that 47% of people in prison (USA) are dyslexic. General population estimates are around 20%. Link to PDF study