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TIL that Michael Jackson was chemically castrated at a young age by his father to preserve his voice.

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ADYw TIL there’s no hard evidence the Qu'ran existed before the last decade of the 7th century, 6 decades after Muhammad’s supposed death.
lV4A TIL an average of 38 children die each year in the U.S from heat stroke as a result of being forgotten about in the back seat of a vehicle on a summer day. 755 children have needlessly died this way since 1990.
jNRDn TIL that Louis Armstrong was a heavy marijuana smoker for much of his life and spent 9 days in jail in 1930 after being arrested for drug possession outside a club. He described marijuana as "a thousand times better than whiskey".
W1bN TIL In 1982 a 15 year old runaway lived in an elevator shaft for 2 months. He rewired the elevator to work as he wanted, and was caught when residents smelled cooking hot dogs.
D1GEY TIL a man named Curtis Flowers has been tried SIX times for the SAME murder charge, currently awaiting his SEVENTH trial on death row, and it DOESN'T fall under the Double Jeopardy clause