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TIL About the Musket Wars, a series of upwards of 3000 battles between Māori tribes from 1806 to 1845, after Māori first obtained muskets.
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TIL about Homeboy Industries, a gang rehabilitation center in Los Angeles that offers jobs placement, housing, counseling, and tattoo removal for tens of thousands of gang members for over 36 years.
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TIL tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, eggplant, tomatillos, and goji berries are all nightshades
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TIL the "Soap Lady" on display at Philadelphia's Mütter Museum is a 19th-century woman whose body fat chemically transformed into a soap-like substance after burial—a process called saponification...
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TIL Prince was the original choice to play the role of Ruby Rhod in The Fifth Element, which Chris Tucker ended up playing, but he backed out because Jean Paul Gaultier’s costumes were ‘too effemi...
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til that your brain literally washes itself while you sleep. the brain cells actually shrink in size so cerebrospinal fluid can rush in and flush out all the toxic proteins built up during the day
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TIL Tommy McHugh once pooped so hard after a knock on the toilet door that it burst 2 blood vessels that led him to a coma. He ended up getting savant syndrome and began to express everything in p...
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TIL in 2005, Nintendo Power (At the time published by Nintendo of America) considered Superman 64 the worst game ever released on one of their platforms. Nintendo's statement in the magazine was "...
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TIL Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca, was escorted by crew members wearing brightly colored vests and told not to wander off set wearing his costume while on location for 'Return of the Jedi' En...
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TIL Garry Watson, Last living Silent film actor, died at 97
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TIL that in 1858 the Vatican heard of a Jewish boy who was baptised by his nanny, without his Jewish parent's consent, and decided to kidnap the boy with the still running - and legally binding - ...
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TIL: The original lyric for Escape (The Pina Colada Song) was "If you like Humphrey Bogart". Writer Rupert Holmes changed it at the last minute to Pina Coladasss, a drink he had never tried before.
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TIL the Ancient Egyptian multiplication method is still commonly used in modern computer processors
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TIL a man in a unicorn pool floaty was fishing near the beach in Fort Lauderdale when he hooked a 10-foot shark that proceeded to drag him four miles offshore in his floaty. He was eventually resc...
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TIL that space helmets have a small piece of Velcro stuck to the inside so that astronauts can scratch their noses during spacewalks.
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TIL the Great Mosque of Djenné in Mali is made of mud and replastered by the community annually before the rainy season
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TIL Most of Los Angeles' original Chinatown was razed to make way for Union Station and the 101 freeway in the 1940s. Today, the Garnier Building in the El Pueblo district, now home to the Chinese...
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TIL that American ginseng is so valuable ($300-$500 a pound) that poachers risk jail time to steal roots from the Appalachia mountains
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TIL in 2014, Ben Affleck received a lifetime ban from the blackjack tables at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas after surveillance footage showed him counting cards during a high-stake...
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TIL In the 1994 movie Leon: The professional, Gary Oldman screams "EVERYONE!" at one of his henchman. This amateur actor was actually a New York fireman, killed 7 years later on 9/11 where his rem...
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TIL that the word "literally" has been used figuratively by great English writers for over 100 years.
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TIL that in 1997, Gueorgui Makharadze, the deputy ambassador from Georgia, struck and killed a 16-year old girl while driving drunk. Georgia agreed to waive his diplomatic immunity and he served 3...
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TIL on August 19th, 1980 Saudia Flight 163 experienced an onboard fire 7 minutes after takeoff. Despite being able to land safely back at Riyadh Airport & taxiing to a stop, the plane was not ...
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TIL on 17 May 1995, a drunk California man named Shawn Nelson stole an M60A3 tank from a National Guard armoury in San Diego. He went on a rampage in a nearby neighbourhood, crushing cars and knoc...
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TIL Margot Robbie convinced Martin Scorsese to cast her in The Wolf of Wall Street by hauling off & giving Leonardo DiCaprio an improvised "thunderclap of a slap on the face" during her first ...
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