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TIL David Bowie kept a fur-covered pit in his living room for orgies.

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R7l78 TIL Brandon Lee's stunt double in "The Crow" was later used as a stand-in for Lee after his death and CGI was used to digitally superimpose Lee's face onto the head of the double. The stunt double was Chad Stahelski who later directed "John Wick" and "John Wick: Chapter 2".
d1mZ TIL to avenge the kidnapping of a group of British subjects, the British Empire mobilised 39,000 men and 40,000 work animals, traversed 400 miles of mountainous terrain, sacked the offending king’s capital, and then returned home.
LkDXr TIL: That none of the three "suicide squad divers" in Chernobyl died from acute radiation syndrome (ARS). As of 2015, it was reported that both Alexei Ananenko and Valeri Bespalov were alive and well. Boris Baranov, passed away in 2005 of a heart attack.
X0rOk TIL "November Rain" by Guns N' Roses was the longest song ever to reach the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 until November 2021, when surpassed by Taylor Swift's extended rerecording of "All Too Well".
rR6y1 TIL Evel Knievel tried to beat a man to death with a baseball bat in 1977 for writing a book that portrayed Knievel as "an immoral person".