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TIL it's okay to look directly at the total solar eclipse

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OoNK1 TIL The Postmaster General received a letter in 1913 inquiring about the appropriate way to wrap a baby; the customer noted that the Post Office was more trustworthy than the privately owned companies it competed against, which would be too “rough in handling.”
LPW0 TIL Mild-mannered Jon Lovitz went nuts on Andy Dick at a comedy club accusing him of being somewhat responsible for Phil Hartman’s death. Dick apparently got Hartman’s wife back on drugs. Phil was shot five months later.
GYaNJ TIL that during filming of Titanic, the cast and crew ate chowder laced with PCP, leading to a hospital conga Line.
JvNl TIL a senator from Florida “went on vacation” in the middle of his term, never came back, and eventually turned up homeless and insane in the streets of Detroit
R7jX4 TIL about Lady Wonder, a horse who some believed had psychic abilities. 150,000 people paid to consult Lady Wonder ($1 for three questions). While many assumed it was an elaborate hoax, the horse did help locate the body of a missing person.