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TIL about St Brigid of Ireland, who turned bathwater to beer

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8e66b TIL Buzz Aldrin Battled Depression and Alcohol Addiction After the Moon Landing
lorxV TIL Pope John XII died on 14 May 964; one story relates that he died of a paralytic stroke suffered while having sex with a woman named Stefanetta. He may have died instead when the woman's husband defenestrated John or beat him to death with a hammer during the act.
Lka4Q TIL The animatronic Gremlins in the 1984 movie were originally going to be played by monkeys, but that plan was abandoned after the test monkey panicked when wearing a Gremlin head.
VMabG TIL 'Bhang' is an edible cannabis product that has been used in India since 1000 BC
E1ado TIL that musicians formed the Music Defense League in 1930 to fight against movies with sound. They worried that without people playing music live at the movies, like in the silent era, they would lose jobs so they ran an expensive campaign arguing about how robots were taking over the world.