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TIL Gloria Gaynor recorded "I Will Survive" wearing a back brace, after having surgery due to a fall at a concert

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b8oE TIL that 95% of the avocados on sale in the world are descended from a single tree planted by Rudolph Hass, a Milwaukee postman, in 1926.
9glM TIL that Luke Magnotta, a 30-year-old former porn actor, murdered, dismembered, and cannibalized a Chinese exchange student, posted a video of it online, then mailed the body parts to various Canadian political parties.
Y7J1x TIL: That autographs of The Beatles were once left in cupboard for decades. The Beatles signed their monikers on a scrap of paper at a small gig in Shropshire on 19 January 1963. The Shropshire gig came just over a week after the Fab Four released their first big hit, the single Please Please Me.
JYkok TIL of Lynn Turner, who in 1995 her husband died after being sick with the flu. In 2001, her second husband died under remarkably similar circumstances, which aroused suspicions. After investigation, it was found that Lynn had murdered both her husbands by poisoning them with antifreeze.
bRn0 TIL Tony Hawk asked ska band Goldfinger for an “odd song that wasn’t on the album” for his video game, and was given Superman. It became their most popular song, thanks to the game.