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TIL a prisoner once committed suicide by making a bomb from several packs of playing cards

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VBRE8 TIL I learned that the the town of Boring (Oregon, US) established relationship with village of Dull (Scotland, UK) in 2012; the following year they were joined with the Shire of Bland (New South Wales, AU) to form the League of Extraordinary Communities.
PYBVO TIL Mary Baker Eddy started The Christian Science Monitor not for her religious reasons, but so that the world would have a source of news free from "Yellow Journalism"
pYvY8 TIL being bullied is the least common in Korea and Japan amongst OECD countries
b9RpQ TIL the lyrics of 'Smack My B*tch Up' alternate between the titular line and the line 'Change my pitch up'
N7B1b TIL, Max Yasgur who hosted the '69 Woodstock concert, received only $10K, shunned by his neighbors, gave free water and milk to guests and was hailed. He died 4 years later and received a full page obituary in Rolling Stone as a non musician.