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TIL Alex Mitchell, 50, died from heart failure due to laughing while watching The Goodies. His widow later sent The Goodies a letter thanking them for making his last moments of life so pleasant.

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rRxvW TIL about Sarah Forbes Bonetta. An admitted genius and royal of the Yoruba tribe's Oyo empire that was given to Queen Victoria in 1850 as a present after her parents were decapitated and her siblings sold in the Atlantic slave trade. She would be raised as the Queens Goddaughter.
NXkP TIL a baker’s dozen is 13 instead of 12 because bakers were afraid of accidentally shorting the customer and violating strict laws (wish punishments including losing a hand)
p8VPA TIL that during Prohibition, the US Congress had their own alcohol bootlegger named George Cassiday who operated for 5 years before being arrested. He delivered 25 orders per day to a private storeroom in the basement of the House Office so he could avoid the Capitol Police.
KYol6 TIL: There is a serial killer who was also an extra in various movies and TV shows such as Breaking Bad. Clifton Bloomfield, A bully since high school, he went on a crime spree, was jailed for 14 years, and after release in 2002 he murdered 5 people before and during the filming of Breaking Bad.
awyaM TIL the Chicken Ranch was the Oldest Continually Operating Whorehouse in the United States when it closed in 1973. - During the Great Depression the "house of ill repute" offered time with a "lady of the evening" in exchange for a chicken. [The brothel was listed on the tax rolls as a poultry farm.]