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TIL the original cast of Jackass included a female cast member but she was brutally injured during a stunt and left the group

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TIL that the hepatitis E virus was discovered by a Soviet physician when he ingested fecal samples from 22 soldiers during a presumed non-hepatitis A outbreak i...

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TIL when Monty Python's Life of Brian was released in 1979, its religious satire subject matter was highly controversial. It was banned by 11 local councils in ...

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TIL that an Amazon engineer trying to troubleshoot the AWS S3 billing system accidentally took down way more servers than intended because of a typo, resulting ...

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TIL that guinea pigs were originally domesticated as a source of food.

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TIL that in 2016, a monkey fell onto an electrical transformer, shorting it and causing the entire country of Kenya to have no electricity for 4 hours. The monk...

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TIL that in 1978, the actor who plays Darth Vader publicly spoiled the “I am your father” twist in Empire Strikes Back two years before the movie debuted

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TIL that during the filming of The Devil Wears Prada, most fashion industry designers and executives declined appearing as themselves in cameo roles due to fear...

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TIL that Daniel Fahrenheit (who invented the mercury thermometer) set 0°F to the coldest stable temperature he could maintain in his lab by dissolving salt in w...

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TIL during the Falklands War, the British Government and BBC accidentally announced early the real plan for British troops to attack Goose Green. The Argentine ...

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TIL medieval alchemists associated the 7 known metals at the time (gold, silver, quicksilver, copper, iron, tin, and lead) with the 7 classical planets (the sun...

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TIL that 28 years before Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein the French author Nogaret wrote Le Miroir, a story about an automaton brought to life by a doctor named...

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TIL that a dude in England stumbled on a buried Roman treasure worth $6,000,000 out metal-detectoring for a lost hammer

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TIL that the United States government still sends $4,500 worth of cloth to the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy every year, and has done so every November 1...

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TIL Johns Hopkins Medicine got 12 men to vape salvinorin A crystals.

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TIL that the biggest empire in the Animalia kingdom is the global mega-colony of Argentine ants spanning from California to Europe, because of matching pheronom...

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TIL That in 1883, Mexican astronomer José Bonilla photographed more than 400 mysterious objects crossing the Sun over two days. Modern astrophysicists now belie...

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TIL that while tonka beans are prized for their flavor, it's banned in the US since 1954. The beans have the taste of vanilla, licorice, caramel, and cloves. Re...

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TIL of the 貔貅 pixiu, a Chinese mythical beast that legendarily defecated on the floor of Heaven, after which the Jade Emperor spanked it hard enough to permanen...

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TIL that smoke detectors themselves (not just the batteries) should be replaced every 10 years.

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