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TIL: After the death of his wife from breast cancer, actor Rick Moranis began an 18-year-long hiatus from acting to raise his children.

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XEWP8 TIL that after many tragedies in Frida Kahlo's life, such as a bus accident in which a metal rail entered her hip and exited through her vagina leaving her with pain her entire life, and having half her leg amputated, her last written words were "I joyfully await the exit and I hope never to return"
VMB70 TIL that only 12 people have won an EGOT (Emmy, the Grammy, the Oscar and the Tony). They are: Richard Rogers, Helen Hayes, Rita Moreno, John Gielgud, Audrey Hepburn, Marvin Hamlisch, Jonathan Tunick, Mel Brooks, Mike Nichols, Whoopi Golberg, Scott Rudin, Robert Lopez.
epnDg TIL the little loops on the back of men's dress shirts have an official name and use. They're called 'locker loops' and were earlier made on sailors' shirts so they could hang their shirts anywhere on hooks on their ship. Universities later followed to keep their button down uniforms wrinkle-free.
Eg9LV TIL that pea crab, tiny parasitic crabs live in oyster and other shell fish, will rub the edge of a shellfish containing a female pea crab for hours until the shellfish opens and allows the male pea crab to enter
rgmy TIL Coffin Torpedoes were invented in the 1800s to prevent grave robberies. They fired if the coffin was opened.