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TIL P.T. Barnum showed off a “161”-year-old woman. After her death in 1836, an autopsy was performed and it concluded that her body was not >80 years old, aligning more closely with persons in their 70s than those >100 years

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bK8p TIL that Dean Koontz decided not to sue the filmmakers of High Tension for plagiarizing his book Intensity because he found the film to be so puerile, so disgusting, and so intellectually bankrupt he didn’t want the association with it that would come from a lawsuit.
LVEZ TIL TV mystery series ‘Columbo’ was so popular in Romania that when the show was cancelled the Romanian gov’t feared riots, so they had the US State Dept. ask Peter Falk to record a video message to the Romanian people, which he did by reading it phonetically into the camera
yQk8J TIL that there exists Free Beer, a beer whose recipe you can freely modify since the beer is open source. Currently, the beer is at version 6.0.
ePOL TIL General Motors used live animals as crash test dummies up until 1993 and once received a letter “so mean it ended up in the hands of the FBI”.
BrPKD TIL that, in 2014, OkCupid admitted experimenting on its users. Most notably, they ran experiments where they told people who were in fact bad matches that they were good matches, and vice versa. They found people talked more when OkCupid "matched" them and less likely when OkC "mismatched" them.