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TIL that Harry Houdini was always skeptical of the mediums that prayed on vulnerable people, so he tried to contact his dead mother, Cecelia, in 1922. It was a fail because the medium, Lady Doyle, wrote down what his mother was apparently saying in English, which was a language Cecelia did not know.

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dWXE TIL that Ozzy Osbourne once got so wasted before a meeting with the German head of CBS Europe, he left thinking he had ‘lightened the mood’ with a striptease. In reality, he performed a Nazi goose-step up and down the table before dipping his testicles in, then urinating in, the director’s wine.
aw079 TIL that in a sexual survey U.S. women reported using a nationwide total of 1.1 Billion condoms a year. Men reported using 1.6 Billion condoms a year. The actual amount of condoms sold by manufacturers was 600 million.
kg1e TIL Lucille Ball saved Star Trek from being cancelled in 1964.
vPLAK TIL that Karen Dotrice, who portrayed Jane in Disney's Mary Poppins, didn't see the film in its entirety until 2013, almost fifty years after its original release. She didn't watch the full 140-minute film at its 1964 premiere because she had to leave early for school the following morning.
JAak TIL: The driest place on Earth gets 4 inches of rain every 1000 years.