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TIL that Sonny Curtis, who wrote the Mary Tyler Moore theme song “Love is All Around,” also wrote “I Fought the Law.” He & Buddy Holly performed together – even opening for Elvis – as teens until Holly formed the Crickets. Curtis joined the Crickets after Holly died. They recorded “IFTL” in 1960.

by whatilearned May 18, 2022, 4:26 pm

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TIL that the phrase “laugh your head off” came from a beheading in which the condemned laughed as they died due to an overcrowded stand collapsing and killing several spectators.

by whatilearned May 17, 2022, 8:49 pm

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TIL The survivors and families of those who died in the Titanic were only compensated $430 ($11.4 thousand today).

by whatilearned May 13, 2022, 11:58 pm

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My grief counselor died

by cringeyjokesman May 13, 2022, 11:15 am

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TIL of John Graham, who hated his mother so much he hid 25 sticks of dynamite and a timed detonator in her suitcase before a flight. It was one of the first ever attacks of a commercial flight; all 44 aboard died.

by whatilearned May 12, 2022, 8:13 pm

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What was a moment in your childhood looking back thinking, “yeah I could’ve died/ should be dead”?

by QuestionGuy May 12, 2022, 12:24 am

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What’s a time where you should have died, but you survived by sheer luck?

by QuestionGuy May 11, 2022, 8:44 pm

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TIL in 2008, a woman died of blunt force craniocerebral trauma when a 75-pound (34 kg) spotted eagle ray leaped out of the water and knocked her over onto the deck of the vessel she was aboard. The spotted eagle ray also died at impact.

by whatilearned May 11, 2022, 5:29 am

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TIL to study health effects of coffee, King Gustav III of Sweden forced identical twin prisoners to drink 3 pots of either coffee or tea a day for life. The tea-drinking twin died before the coffee-drinking twin. The king and attending doctors died before both.

by whatilearned May 11, 2022, 1:24 am

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After my ex died, I couldn’t shower alone for 10 years

by cringeyjokesman May 9, 2022, 12:12 am

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TIL Mike, the chicken that lived for 18 months after being decapitated. He was fed through his oesophagus and only died because he choked on his mucus

by whatilearned May 8, 2022, 10:52 pm

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TIL Anna Jarvis, the creator of Mother’s Day, regretted it as the day grew more commercialized. She died broke from spending so much money on her fight to end the holiday.

by whatilearned May 6, 2022, 9:13 pm

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