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TIL that the rumour that actress Lupe Velez drowned in her toilet when she slipped while vomiting after a barbiturate overdose is false. Official reports state her death was due to Seconal poisoning not drowning

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XEaJR TIL that service dogs go through a “Public Access Test” where among other things they must stay put as a plate of food is placed 18” from them for one minute and then taken away
ABY4 TIL a Soviet soccer player was so popular that when he was sent to the Siberian gulags during Stalin’s Great Purge in the 1930s, he was treated rather well as the gulag commanders were also his fans, who gave him better quarters and food rations, and was even asked to coach the local teams.
XE4VR TIL British spymaster Sir Mansfield Smith-Cumming, the first head of the MI6 and the inspiration of James Bond's M, started the practice of using semen as invisible ink during WWI. It worked well, until they realised that the letters smelled awful when received.
5VQpQ TIL beneath the Puerto Rico Trench is a mass so dense it has a gravitational pull on the surface of the ocean, causing it to dip somewhat. The Trench is also associated with the most negative gravity anomaly on earth, -380 milliGal, which indicates the presence of an active downward force.
1err TIL that Ori, who was a Dwarf member of Thorin and Company from the Hobbit, was also in the Fellowship of the Ring. He is the corpse that Gandalf takes the Book of Mazarbul from in the Mines of Moria in Balin’s Tomb.