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TIL that Nicolas Cage was once awoken by a naked man eating a Fudgesicle

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R5e64 TIL Non-fatal strangulation is an important risk factor for homicide of women. For women, it was reported in 10% of abused controls, 45% of attempted homicides and 43% of homicides.
4XrEg TIL that Weird Al Yankovic wrote the song "Yellow Snow" as a parody of Prince's "Purple Rain", but was not allowed to release it.
0wd51 TIL of Frantisek Zahradka. He was arrested in 1949 in Czechoslovakia when he was in high school for assisting people to cross the border. He spent two years in solitary, and 18 years was forced to mine uranium ore for the government.
P14LG TIL that American pornography had a 'golden age' between 1969 and 1984. This was marked by pornographic films receiving positive attention from movie critics and the general public, including mainstream broadcasting in cinemas.
0wkPy TIL That an american doctor that survived Ebola, contracted the virus in his eye, turning it green, and regained his eyesight by taking a non-FDC approved experimental secret drug.