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TIL Carl Switzer, who played Alfalfa of the Little Rascals, was killed in a money dispute at the age of 31.

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M1B7 TIL a comedian died of a heart attack in front of millions of viewers on live tv and people thought it was all a part of the act.
N7BdM TIL the only police officer to arrest a sitting President was William H. West, a black Civil War veteran. He arrested President Ulysses S. Grant for speeding on his horse in 1872, for which the President paid a $20 bond.
8Gea TIL Linda Hamilton actually picked the locks on her harness and on the door in the mental hospital in Terminator 2
QJGZp TIL Aeschylus, a Greek playwright, died in 455 BC after an eagle dropped a tortoise on his head, mistaking his head for a rock (some eagles kill tortoises this way, breaking them open). Aeschylus was spending most of his time outside to avoid a prophecy that he would die from a falling object.
AjWw TIL that if Texas had the same population density as New York City, all of the world’s 7.4 billion people would fit inside the state’s borders.