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TIL that Kurt Cobain’s suicide note was addressed to “Boddah”, his childhood imaginary friend.

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J1ybQ TIL that Meyer Goldstein, one of two Socialists to serve in the U.S. Congress, lost his seat to Samuel Dickstein, who was later discovered to be spying for the Soviet Union
xVG1D TIL that the USSR used the phrase "And you are hanging Blacks" to criticize the hypocrisy of the US pointing fingers at Soviet human rights abuses while still perpetrating lynchings.
ANPpB TIL Indian space entrepreneur Susmita Mohanty is the only space entrepreneur in the world to have cofounded companies on three different continents in Asia, Europe and North America.
YpmrP TIL that shrews can eat as much as 2 times their weight in food per day, and can starve to death if denied food for as little as 3 hours
ybXv TIL in the 16th century, Ishikawa Goemon was sentenced to death by being boiled alive in an iron cauldron along with his very young son, but was able to save his son by holding him above his head. His son was then forgiven