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TIL People with Blue eyes show the strongest association with alcohol dependency

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7rbKr TIL that while young Robert E. Lee worked surveying the boundary between Ohio and Michigan, he jokingly referred in a letter to a snake he killed in a lighthouse as the lighthouse's keeper. Lee's biographer Douglas Southall Freeman misinterpreted this as an admission that Lee killed a human keeper.
YX4G TIL If you die in Amsterdam with no next of kin and no-one to attend your funeral, a poet will write a poem for you and recite it at your funeral.
8ewwP TIL that since coming out as gay, Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford has decided to avoid returning to certain parts of the world for fear of lapidation (being stoned to death).
d8R5d TIL a group is injecting wild rhino horns with a pink dye that is harmless to rhinos but causes vomiting and diarrhea in humans. The goal is to poison illegal rhino horn consumers in order to decrease poaching.
OGJGg TIL Al Pacino is the 20th oldest father in recorded history, and Robert De Niro is the 28th