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TIL Larry Flynt considered buying the Playboy Mansion for well below the $200 million asking price in 2016. However, the deal fell apart as Flynt's Hustler company would not accept the condition that Playboy boss Hugh Hefner must be allowed to continue living at the site after the sale

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E1ae0 TIL that the jury selection for the O. J. Simpson trial had very strict rules about exposure to the media. One juror was excluded for watching cartoons with her children, another for waking up to a clock radio. When a book about O. J. and Nicole came out, jurors were warned to keep out of bookstores
w0JM TIL Larry McElroy, while trying to shoot an armadillo with a 9mm pistol, had his bullet ricochet off the animal’s shell, hit a fence, go through the back door of his mother-in-law’s mobile home, pierce her recliner and finally hit her in the back.
Rm84 TIL The Simpsons depiction of Homer’s job qualifications are correct. You only need a High School diploma to operate a nuclear reactor.
9w7br TIL a surgeon named Robert Liston performed a surgery that had a 300% mortality rate. He amputated his patient's leg in under 2 and a half minutes who died from gangrene, amputated his assistant's fingers who also died from gangrene, and cut the coat tails of a spectator, who died from shock.
4kNxa TIL about Areca Nut (Betel Nut) - a widely consumed psychoactive substance in Southeast Asia and parts of the Pacific, with severe health risks affecting millions of people worldwide, and ongoing efforts to combat its addictive properties.