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TIL Guns N' Roses lead guitarist Slash once walked in on his mom naked in bed with David Bowie
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Submitted March 31, 2019 at 04:20AM by BarelyLegalSeagull
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TIL That there are 3 raptor species (known by Aboriginals as 'Firehawks') in Australia that intentionally spread wildfires by grabbing a burning stick from a wildfire, flying it to a new area and drop it. Small mammals run from the blaze, which are scooped up by the birds.
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Submitted March 31, 2019 at 12:57AM by dekion101
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TIL in 2006, a woman farted on an American Airlines plane and attempted to cover up her farts by burning matches. When the passengers reported the smell of burning matches to the crew, the flight made an emergency landing in Nashville, and the FBI was called in to conduct an investigation.
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Submitted March 31, 2019 at 06:21AM by g00d1m8
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TIL The entire state of Wyoming only has 2 escalators
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Submitted March 31, 2019 at 05:49AM by TheFineMantine
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TIL that the Election Commission of India sets up a polling station for just one person, 40 Kms inside a lion sanctuary. A team of two policemen and five officials travel along with the voting equipment to register the vote of Guru Bharatdas Darshandas, who is the priest of a local temple.
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Submitted March 31, 2019 at 06:38AM by thinker53
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TIL: Ancient Greeks created spiked dog collars as a way of protecting their dogs’ throats from being ripped out by wolves. (as a fashion item, this is interesting...)
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Submitted March 31, 2019 at 05:23AM by Singleservingfriendx
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TIL Princess Diana opened the UK's first HIV/Aids Clinic. She shook hands with a patient, without gloves, in front of the world's media. This helped change public perception that HIV/Aids was transmitted by touch.
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Submitted March 31, 2019 at 01:52PM by amansaggu26
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TIL if you won the lottery in Australia, you had to go public with your win, turning into an overnight celebrity. This was until the abduction & murder of Graeme Thorne, 8, whose family won the lottery leading to Graeme being abducted for ransom but killed.
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Submitted March 31, 2019 at 02:42PM by jayjeroo
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TIL In 2010 an unlucky airline passenger was arrested in Ireland after Slovak security officials placed explosives in his luggage for training, then forgot to remove them before the plane took off.
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Submitted March 31, 2019 at 02:58PM by famousforbeingfamous
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TIL Lily Allen wrote a song dissing her brother Alfie in 2007, criticizing him for his lazy behavior. Since then he's done well for himself best known for playing Theon Greyjoy in HBO's Game of Thrones.
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Submitted March 31, 2019 at 01:09PM by bingingwithbaggins
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TIL the last victim of the 1966 University of Texas at Austin shooting died in 2001 after having to undergo dialysis for 35 years, 3 times a week, 5 hours each time. His death was ruled a homicide.
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Submitted March 31, 2019 at 03:35PM by dimailer
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TIL in ancient Egypt, under the decree of Ptolemy II, all ships visiting the city were obliged to surrender their books to the library of Alexandria and be copied. The original would be kept in the library and the copy given back to the owner.
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Submitted March 31, 2019 at 05:47PM by Planet6EQUJ5
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TIL Australia's first cops were all criminals. Their first police force was made up of 12 of the best behaved convicts.
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Submitted March 31, 2019 at 05:14PM by Planet6EQUJ5
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TIL Smoking Areas existed in Public High Schools back in the 1980’s. Students could smoke cigarettes on school grounds between classes in designated lounges
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Submitted March 31, 2019 at 06:29PM by coldwhipzx
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TIL that rh-null, the rarest blood type of the world, has been called the "Golden Blood". This blood type is so rare that only 43 people in the world have it, and there are only 9 active donor.
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Submitted March 31, 2019 at 08:25PM by pradkes
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TIL people who are always running late tend to end up living a longer and healthier life according to Harvard researchers.
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Submitted March 31, 2019 at 07:36PM by jaiga99
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TIL President Kennedy wanted to go to Mars not the Moon – but engineers told him it was 'a little bit too far'. Nasa told him it would take at least 15 years before we could put a man on the Moon after a weekend of intense calculations
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Submitted March 31, 2019 at 09:30PM by thepresident45
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TIL that a team of thieves stole $18,000 worth of high-tech equipment from a warehouse. Unfortunately for them, about 100 GPS tracking devices were among the items taken, so they were tracked down within hours.
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Submitted March 31, 2019 at 11:34PM by g00d1m8
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TIL in 2008 a woman from Ireland died from an allergic reaction to canine semen after having sex with a dog
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Submitted April 01, 2019 at 12:03AM by Hodorgasm
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