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rRp0y TIL In 2009 the body of a former swimsuit model wad found in a dumpster and was only identified by the serial numbers of her breast implants.
X0vAk TIL about "Household Objects", the planned follow-up album to Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon". It was going to be an album recorded with only common household objects. Only two songs were produced before it was scraped.
xGl5 TIL: When he turned 80, Leonard Cohen took up smoking again after a 30 year break, stating “I’m looking forward to that first smoke. I’ve been thinking about that for 30 years. It’s one of the few consistent strings of thoughts I’ve been able to locate.”
omLA TIL in 2012 a 14 year old North Korean schoolgirl drowned in a flood trying to save portraits of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.
e0nwJ TIL that from 2013 to 2016, US physicians accepted $24.94 billion from pharmaceutical companies, in nearly 41 million transactions, and there is a searchable web database where you can find out if your doctor has accepted any payments, from whom, how much, and the nature of the payment.