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TIL that the director of Rebel Without A Cause started 'sleeping with' a 15 year old after catching his 2nd wife in bed with his 13 year old son

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nx1d TIL in 1858 a sweets seller in Bradford, England known as Humbug Billy accidentally produced peppermint humbugs containing lethal doses of arsenic killing approximately 20 people.
97yB TIL that scholar Theodore Roszak believes that a weekday edition of the New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England. (Fixed to meet rules)
JbEk TIL That Conan O'Brien pranked Bill Cosby when he was 19. He wanted to meet Cosby, so he created a fake award for Cosby to accept.
Oo4ye TIL Pigs are smarter than any other domestic animal and they are considered by animal experts to be more trainable than dogs or cats.
JMnQ TIL that in 1990, the US gov’t authorized sending coca eating caterpillars to Peru to fight the drug problem. Their poop is nearly 100% cocaine.