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TIL a year after star Brittany Murphy died of pneumonia her widower Simon Monjack died in the same house of the same illness.

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nerbr TIL of Aeroflot Flight 593 - a plane that crashed, causing the deaths of all on board, because the pilot let his kids fly it.
kJ767 TIL of chinese warlord Zhang Zōngchāng, aka Old Eighty-Six due to a rumor that his erect member was as long as a stack of 86 mexican silver dollars, which were a common currency in 1920’s China.
m1wVo TIL 69% of panel members for the creation of the DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, version 5), have ties to pharmaceutical industries.
4aEa TIL a female physician had an affair with a male physician. No intercourse took place, only oral sex. She secretly took the sperm from her cheeks to impregnate herself. She later sued for child support and won.
grjJ7 TIL the codex, the precursor to modern books, emerged in the 1st century CE as a better alternative to scrolls. Inspired by Roman wax tablets, it used durable parchment folded into sheets, making it more practical and compact—one of the biggest advances in bookmaking before the printing press.