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xJZ1 TIL when asked what happened to Carol Brady’s first husband, Florence Henderson would say “I killed him.”
nW5w9 TIL about a 1980 oil drilling disaster in Louisiana that drained the state's largest freshwater lake into a salt mine
KYR5R TIL on New Year’s Day 12 years after the Nuremberg Trials, chief psychiatrist Douglas Kelly committed suicide in front of his family. He ingested potassium cyanide as had Hermann Göring hours before his hanging. Kelley had a history of dark moods and had admired Göring’s control over his own death.
4XKVw TIL that MORE strength and muscle mass makes you live longer and healthier, especially strength. Athletes live on average 4 to 8 years longer than the general population.
ob48 TIL if you are lost in the bush, 99% of the time you’ll walk in big circles as big as 1km. The human body will always walk to one side of something (trees in this case) and favour that side every time, unless you’re aware of this fault. There’s also a science to it.