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TIL David Bowie had little memory of recording his 10th studio album Station to Station as he had a cocaine habit and subsisted on only peppers and milk, spending much of 1975-1976 “in a state of psychic terror”

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neDkr TIL that Ebola was actually discovered by a "Congolese" doctor Jean-Jacques Muyembe and not a doctor in "Belgium" named Peter Piot.
e0e8g TIL of "My Way" killings: The singing of Frank Sinatra's "My Way" in karaoke bars in the Philippines has on multiple occasions led to fatal disputes, including one where a man was shot for "singing off-key"
D1l6J TIL that in Moscow, packs of stray dogs will sometimes send out a smaller, cuter member to beg for food, apparently realising it will be more successful than its bigger, less attractive counterparts
DQNND TIL that whisky is the UK's 5th export product, valued at £6.25 billion.
mB7p TIL in order to convince CBS to allow Lucille Ball to be shown pregnant on “I Love Lucy,” Desi Arnaz consulted a priest, a rabbi and a minister, all of whom said it was fine. CBS relented, but still prohibited “pregnant” words, so Arnaz pronounced “expecting” as “spectin” in his Cuban accent.