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TIL of Jon-Erik Hexum, an actor who was fooling around with a gun between delays on a TV set in 1984. He jokingly raised the gun to his head and said “Can you believe this crap?” before pulling the trigger and blowing his skull open with the explosion of the blank at close range.

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N7rN8 TIL that scientists have discovered a breed of banana which is immune to the fungus threatening the current kind of banana
9Kxm TIL that despite creating the very rational and logical character of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a firm believer in the supernatural and his beliefs even cost him his friendship with the very skeptical Harry Houdini.
x71B TIL that NASA discovered a planet with two suns. AKA Tatooine.
8ay1Z TIL when Ella Fitzgerald couldn’t get booked by clubs and TV because she was black, Marilyn Monroe offered to come to a nightclub every night and sit in the front row if they let Ella sing.
GAQwj TIL that 25% of all known animal species are beetles