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TIL that Willie Nelson’s (ex) wife sewed him up in a sheet and beat him with a broomstick. His comment: “She was a very classy, ingenious, brilliant lady, and I was a problem at times.”

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QMQ9 TIL that the only Soviet citizens taken hostage during the Lebanese civil war were freed unharmed after the KGB kidnapped and castrated a close relative of a prominent Hezbollah leader and mailed him the parts.
0wDBj TIL the inventor of reiki, Mikao Usui, suffered a stroke and died while teaching it. Reiki is is used as an illustrative example of pseudoscience in academic journal articles. There is no central authority controlling use of the words "reiki master", & certificates can be purchased online
l84K TIL that The Lonely Island’s song “Dick In A Box” won an Emmy award for “outstanding original music and lyrics”
WkEpB TIL about renowned British military surgeon James Barry, a pioneer in the medical field with a career spanning over 50 years. After his death in 1865 the nurse prepping his body for burial noted female anatomy and stretch marks from pregnancy. Barry had been born a woman named Margaret Ann Bulkley.
LLZ0 TIL that Nelson Rockefeller, once vice President of the United States, died at age 79. of a heart attack rumoured to be caused during sex with his assistant. The New York Magazine quipped: “Nelson thought he was coming, but he was going”