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TIL 1976 eletronic music classic album 'Mother Earth's Plantasia' was originally only available to those who bought houseplants from Mother Earth plant store in LA... or given away for free to those who bought Simmons mattress from Sears

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KBP6 TIL Ernest Hemingway begged his wife not to send him for more electroshock treatments because he lost so much of his memory he couldn’t even remember his own name. He committed suicide the day after his 36th shock treatment.
R7K68 TIL Olympic gold medals composed at least 92.5% of silver
J1nLm TIL the belief that the two disasters involving the De Havilland Comet were caused by square passenger windows is a myth. The two planes involved actually used rectangular windows with rounded edges; and the "square windows" is actually the square cut-out for the ADF Antenna above the cockpit.
OG77e TIL: There is an infamous 1855 book, "English as She Is Spoke" which a very poor Portuguese to English guidebook which became popular for it's unintentional humor due to the broken English. Examples include, "What do him?", "I have mind to vomit", and "The walls have hearsay."
99r TIL scientists filmed a couple having sex using a MRI