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TIL Princess Diana was set to star in sequel to The Bodyguard with Kevin Costner

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jD6R TIL that 7 years ago a man designed a Euthanasia Roller Coaster. It pulled 10 g’s and was designed to both thrill and kill 24 passengers at a time.
LQLoP TIL The Gorillaz were the first artist to chart in the UK Top 40 with a majority of sales coming from digital downloads.
yVXbX TIL the 9th of November is called Schicksalstag in Germany, because multiple historically very important events happened on that day such as the november revolution 1918, the Hitler Putsch in 1925, the Kristallnacht in 1938 and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989
jA4Q TIL Dr Seuss was the first person to coin the word ‘Nerd’ in his 1950 book If I Ran the Zoo.
YpdVP TIL that loneliness and social isolation are as damaging as smoking 15 cigarettes a day and can lead to a a 29% increase in risk of coronary heart disease and a 32% increase in risk of a stroke.