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TIL about the existence of a symbol for ?!, the interrobang
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mxRWo
TIL researchers sent out surveys to 23AndMe users asking if they noticed a smell when peeing after eating asparagus. Using the 53% that said "Yes", they were able to isolate the specific part of the DNA that determines whether you can smell asparagus pee.
VrD4
TIL in 2004, GirlsGoneWild founder Joe Francis was held at gunpoint in his home by a man who demanded $500,000 whilst videotaping him and making him say “I’m from Boys Gone Wild, and I like it up the ass.”
R78G9
TIL that Sammy Davis Jr didn’t only overcome racism over being black when he became famous in the 50s. He was one of the first openly bisexual pop singers, he was Jewish in perhaps the most anti-Semitic period in modern American history, and he only had one eye!
mKZO
TIL that after Wernher von Braun’s first V2 rocket was used in combat, he was quoted as saying “the rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet”.
kpWB
TIL in 2012 the NYPD declared a couple to be “professional agitators” because they filmed videos of police conducting stop-and-frisks and uploaded them to YouTube. Cops posted their mugshots in a stationhouse and warned officers to be on guard against them.