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TIL Frank Zappa was approached by a crazed fan with a gun. Zappa persuaded him into walking with him, and numerous others. to a nearby lake. He then persuaded everyone present to start throwing things
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TIL that the man who once had the longest beard in the world died when he broke his neck after accidentally stepping on it
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TIL Mike Tyson caught his wife cheating on him with Brad Pitt, in a car he paid for. "You should have seen the look on that pretty boys face when he got out of the car" - Tyson
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TIL that D.A.R.E., the education program that seeks to prevent use of controlled drugs, has dropped all mention of marijuana from its curriculum as of December 2012.
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TIL that Gordon Ramsay was doused in petrol and held at gunpoint in Costa Rica while investigating illegal shark fin trading for a television series
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TIL Jackie Chan's Son Will Get None Of His $130 Million Fortune, he said "If he is capable, he can make his own money. If he is not, then he will just be wasting my money."
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TIL When Ronald Reagan was a child, he would invite blacks who were turned away from the all-white hotel in his town back to his house to stay the night and have breakfast the next morning
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TIL in 1959 a fighter pilot ejected from his jet fighter at 45,000 feet directly into a violent thunderstorm and spent the next 40 minutes being thrusted up and down inside of a thunderstorm cloud
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TIL JFK Warned About Secret Societies and the Danger of the Media Reporting On Trivial Matters for Entertainment Instead of News
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TIL Brazil prisons offer their prisoners the chance to reduce their prison sentence by four days (up to 48 days/year) for every book they read and write a report on
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TIL A man in TX was still executed after someone else confessed for committing the murder and the only eyewitness admitted he didn't actually see it
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TIL 90% of all adoptions in Japan are adult adoptions, mostly men in their 20-30´s. Reason: Business leaders need a succesfull son to take over the business
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TIL that the first woman to earn a PhD in Computer Science in the United States also earned a Masters degree in Mathematics and Physics, helped develop computer programming languages, AND she was a Ca
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TIL that an ex-Gurkha soldier named Bishnu Shrestha took on 40 robbers single-handedly on a train to prevent a stranger from being raped armed with just a khukuri
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TIL Ernest Hemingway took a urinal from his favorite bar and moved it into his Key West home, arguing that he had "pissed away" so much of his money into the urinal that he owned it
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TIL in WWII,Germans tank drivers in Africa would drive tanks over camel poop for luck. Allies responded by planting land mines disguised as camel dung. Germans got wind of this and began riding over d
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TIL Jónsi, the lead singer in Sigur Rós, once forgot the lyrics while performing with the band in France. He improvised and kept on singing in Icelandic " Oh shit, I forgot the lyrics, but that's o.
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TIL Heath Ledger kept a "Joker Diary" in which he wrote as the Joker, and included a list of things he thought the Joker would find funny, including blind babies and AIDS
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TIL Brown eyes are actually blue underneath the brown, and as a result there exists laser surgery to turn brown eyes blue
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TIL that the high five was invented by an openly gay athlete, and was a symbol of gay pride and identification
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TIL A king penguin in Japan was rescued and nursed back to life. He refused to leave, and now lives with the family. He has his own extra cold room, and he goes out on walks around the neighbourhood t
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TIL Your nose constantly goes through "nasal cycles" where the 2 nasal cavities alternate being partially congested to enhance your sense of smell and help lighten the workload
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TIL That in May of 2011, the KKK showed up at a funeral the Westboro Baptist Church was protesting. The KKK protested against the WBC, saying, "It's the soldier that fought and died and gave them that
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