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Today I learned about Truddi Chase, a woman diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder. When diagnosed she had 70 alternates called The Troop.

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YdWx TIL that when Eminem won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, he didn’t attend the ceremony. He was taking a nap after watching cartoons with his daughter
b8oE TIL that 95% of the avocados on sale in the world are descended from a single tree planted by Rudolph Hass, a Milwaukee postman, in 1926.
rRlWx TIL During the Depression, Post Toasties (now Post Consumer Brands) decided to use cartoon animals on its boxes and paid its cartoonist $1.5 million in the first year. That artist was Walt Disney, and he used the earnings to build the Disney empire.
1akGV TIL that there used to be a commercial project to establish a permanent manned base on the Moon called the Artemis Project.
yQy0M TIL in 2009 a man sued Pepsi after finding a dead mouse in his Mt. Dew. They responded by saying that if the mouse had been in the soda since its bottling, it would have dissolved.