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dDZQ7 TIL that Gordon Lightfoot's song, Sundown, was a cautionary tale about his onetime girlfriend, the backup singer Cathy Smith, who was later convicted in the overdose death of the comedy star John Belushi after she injected him with heroin and cocaine in 1982.
m18vY TIL that, in 1996, workers at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station found and subsequently decontaminated four orphaned, mildly-radioactive kittens.
GANJ5 TIL Lord Byron's character Don Juan is properly pronounced "don jew-one"
ZG4Q TIL there’s a boiling lake so hot that the centre has never been reached, and therefore the maximum depth and temperature are unknown.
xVvG0 TIL that Steve Jobs often went to his biological father's Mediterranean restaurant in San Jose and even shook his hand. At the time, his dad didn't know that Jobs was the baby he gave away for adoption, and Jobs didn't know that he was his father.