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TIL the Lights on Funeral Trains Come from a 3,000-Year-Old Ritual to Guide Souls; most popular was Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train

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WWG4 TIL that having sex 3-4 times/week increases the rates of expulsion of kidney stones and decreases the risk of renal colic.
KYOW6 TIL Led Zeppelin were considered one of the most dangerous bands to interview, and journalists were given rules to ensure all out brawls wouldn’t break out. Among those the most famous was to “never make eye contact with John Bonham. ”
6eg7 TIL that the sample used for Dr. Dre’s “The Next Episode” was from a song called “The Edge” written by David McCallum AKA Dr. Donald “Ducky” Mallard from NCIS.
j6QGv TIL in 1930, Helen Adelaide Shelby patented a device for a skeleton in a dark room shrouded with ominous lighting, red lightbulbs for eyes, and a megaphone and film camera in its skull. The goal was to use it to question culprits and induce a supernatural experience that would urge them to confess
AD9yB TIL the famous robocop posters was a painting and not a photograph