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TIL that airplane Wi-Fi works by connecting to satellites orbiting Earth, not cell towers on the ground meaning you’re literally streaming memes from space whil...

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TIL the Dodgers and Giants baseball teams originally started in New York. When they relocated to California, leaving NYC without a National League franchise, a ...

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TIL that Leonardo DiCaprio auditioned for the role of Max in Hocus Pocus, even meeting director Kenny Ortega after he was impressed by his audition. He ended up...

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TIL that in the 30th year of a pharaoh's reign, a jubilee known as Heb-Sed would take place which required the pharaoh to run in a ceremonial course in order to...

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TIL Kurt Cobain tracked down The Raincoats, an all-female, obscure post-punk band that had long stopped performing , because he loved their music and was set to...

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TIL that, with a population of 33,600, San Marino is the smallest country by population to have won an Olympic medal. Only 5 athletes from San Marino were sent ...

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TIL in 2003, Russ Decker, Wisconsin State Senator, voted for a law to lower the legal blood alcohol limit from 0.10 to 0.08. Then two years later he blew a 0.09...

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TIL that the plague bacteria block the infected flea's stomach, causing it to vomit infectious blood back into the victim's wound, and eventually to die of star...

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TIL that when Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit wrote the song Hot Dog as a diss track aimed at Trent Reznor, he used so much material from Nine Inch Nail songs that he...

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TIL during a pool party in Mexico in 2013, eight party-goers were rendered unconscious and one 21-year-old male went into a coma after liquid nitrogen was poure...

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TIL that while naming the Simpsons' grandpa, Matt Groening chose not to name him after his own grandfather, but allow the other writers to choose a name. The ch...

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TIL that for 24 years any ship travelling between Wellington and Nelson in New Zealand would be guided through the most dangerous section by a dolphin called Pe...

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TIL longest U.S. government shutdown lasted 35 days from 12/22/2018 to 1/25/2019

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TIL Refined avocado oil has the highest smoke point of all cooking oils at 271 °C (520 °F). This is significantly higher than other cooking oils such as canola ...

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TIL the Mariners are the only active MLB franchise to never appear in the World Series.

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TIL Bill Murray once offhandedly asked a Philadelphia waitress if she wanted anything "from the army-navy store" before leaving. She replied, "Yeah, camo pants....

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TIL that in 1977, serial killer Ted Bundy was allowed to appear in court without handcuffs or leg shackles because he was serving as his own attorney. He used t...

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TIL the anal sphincters and the brain work together to determine if something passing is gas or stool.

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TIL In 1935, while heiress Ann Cooper Hewitt was in the hospital for an appendectomy, her mother convinced the doctors to sterilize her. It just so happened tha...

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