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TIL that Randy Lanier was competing at Le Mans while simultaneously being one of the biggest drug traffickers in the U.S

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kJdnB TIL there are 7 states where its legal to own a pet bear
0Ov1 TIL in 2010, Japanese welfare officials went to check on a 111-year old man, the family refused to let them see him. Returning with police, they found his mummified corpse still wearing pajamas. The man had died in 1980, but the family hid his death so they could continue to collect his pension.
rNL9e TIL In 1980, a worker inside a Titan II nuclear missile silo dropped a wrench that fell 80ft and punctured the fuel tank. The volatile fuel was ignited by an extractor fan, and the nuclear warhead was blown clear, landing 100ft from the base entrance.
P1NGV TIL the Ilkhanate, the Mongol-ruled Iranian empire, experienced decline under the reign of Gaykhatu (1291–1295). His mismanagement of the empire's finance as well as alleged sexual relations with a boy led him being assassinated by his cousin Baydu in 1295, which will reigin as the new khan.
wgJM TIL there’s a festival in Japan called ‘Kanamara Matsuri’ or 'festival of the steel phallus’. Legend has it a woman with a demonic vagina destroyed all this towns penis’s until a blacksmith made a steel penis that destroyed the vaginas teeth. Now once a year they celebrate everything penis like.