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TIL Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys was drugged and controlled for years by his live-in therapist, who kept him under constant supervision and profited from the rights to Wilson's work.

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kJxxe TIL that mobster Roy DeMeo was considered so dangerous that when the Gambino crime family put a contract out on him, they struggled to get someone to take it up. Even John Gotti was reluctant, as he had killed fewer than 10 people, while DeMeo was responsible for at least 37 murders.
NkYM TIL that in 5,000 years of human history, only 2 diseases have been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest
DQeV TIL that the only US Supreme Court Justice to ever have been impeached, Samuel Chase, was impeached on the grounds that his political views were allegedly affecting his court rulings.
EgpW TIL in the 90s Johnny Depp trashed a NYC hotel room and when confronted by the authorities claimed an armadillo was responsible for the damage. It apparently leaped from a cupboard before trashing the room and throwing itself out the window.
dEmZ TIL: That Maine is the only US state not known to have any ‘dangerously venomous’ spiders.