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TIL Martha Stewart dated Sir Anthony Hopkins but ended the relationship after she saw The Silence of the Lambs. She stated she was unable to avoid associating Hopkins with the character of Hannibal Lecter

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D17OY TIL the guitars on the 1983 David Bowie song "Modern Love" were played by Texas bluesman Stevie Ray Vaughan and funk guitarist Nile Rogers of the dance band Chic.
kOl7e Today I learned that Ring Around the Rosie is most likely not about the Great Plague.
laQG TIL in the 1970s, over 700,000 tires, held together by steel, were dumped off the coast of Florida to create an artificial reef. The steel later rusted apart, detaching the tires and causing an environmental disaster.
R50Aj TIL in 1962 researchers from the University of Oklahoma injected 297 mg of LSD, which is nearly three thousand times the human recreational dose, into "Tusko", an Indian elephant at the Oklahoma City Zoo. Within five minutes he collapsed and died one hour and forty minutes later.
VBG44 TIL the Forest Preserves of Cook County (est. 1914) holds more than 70,000 acres of land making it the oldest and largest preserve system of its kind in the United States.