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TIL: David Bowie had a cameo in the (largely Monty Python) film "Yellowbeard"

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691a7 TIL 'The Phantom of Heilbronn' was believed to be a female serial killer tied to 40 crimes, six of them murders. However, in 2009, it was discovered that the woman never existed, and her DNA found at crime scenes was just contamination from cotton swabs used for collecting samples.
gMKeL TIL Leigh Mercer, a mathematician and writer, created an equation that, when spoken aloud, was a limerick. "A dozen, a gross, and a score/Plus three times the square root of four/Divided by seven/Plus five times eleven/Is nine squared and not a bit more."
4X8jX TIL Humans can survive indefinitely on a diet of just potatoes and butter
M7eEV TIL The American Dental Association supports chewing sugarless gum since it increases salivary volume and flow, thus protecting against cavities.
QgLp TIL archaeologists could determine the Lewis and Clark trail because their use of mercury laxatives left a trail of heavy metals along the way.