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TIL after her mental issues Britney Spears was placed under legal conservatorship. Her finances and many of her personal decisions are run by a group of paid conservators (including her father) for approval even today.

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VMww0 TIL that many countries used "Immurement" as a form of punishment, where the victim was locked in a box and left to starve to death. The latest usage was in 1914, where a Mongolian woman left in a wooden crate died of dehydration.
e0OAD TIL 1 in 4 Irish citizens either died or left Ireland during the great potato famine of the 1840s.
epdkJ TIL of 'Dr' John R. Brinkley - a radio pioneer and fake physician. He would later make part of his fortune implanting goat testicles into humans to increase their virility.
mxoJx TIL Edgar Allen Poe died mysteriously after having been missing for six days. Though still alive when he was finally found, he was wearing someone else’s cheap clothes and not coherent enough to tell where he’d been. He had disappeared en route to his own wedding.
W7O6N TIL In 2023, Researchers re-analyzed lunar dust collected during the 1972 Apollo 17 mission and found evidence that the Moon formed about 40 million years earlier than previously thought. The proportion of lead isotopes indicated that the sample was at least 4.46 billion years old