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TIL that Nik Kershaw originally wanted ’The Riddle’ to be an instrumental but was made to give it lyrics by the record label. He couldn’t come up with lyrics and his nonsense guide lyrics were used instead. The lyrics were thought of as a genuine riddle and became a large matter for debate in the UK

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QJ4w6 TIL that the ancient egyptians used marijuana for various diseases and injuries including depression, glaucoma, inflammation, hemorrhoids, cataracts, and even cancer. In addition to its medical properties, cannabis was used for egyptian religion and culture.
Zo7B TIL that in World War Two, Finnish soldiers were told to “fire low”, as their rifles would often jerk upwards when fired. Accordingly, their battle cry was changed to “Tulta munille!” loosely translated as, “Fire at their balls!”
loBlK TIL A man received a heart transplant from a donor who committed suicide. The recipient married the widow of the donor and committed suicide 12 years after the transplant.
XEwjk TIL President Harry S. Truman was not given a middle name, only the initial S. The S honors his grandfathers, Anderson Shipp Truman and Solomon Young. There is controversy over whether or not the period after the S should be included, although Truman's own letters suggest he regularly used a period.
Wk5xX TIL The philosopher Aristotle wrote in his Poetics (c. 335 BC) that comedy is a representation of inferior people, not indeed in the full sense of the word bad, but the laughable is a species of the base or ugly. It consists in some blunder or ugliness that does not cause pain or disaster