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TIL Japan has as few as two gun-related homicides a year.
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TIL that James May of Top Gear/Grand Tour fame not only bested Gordon Ramsay in a ‘test of man’ competition (which ended with the two eating rotten shark) but beat him in culinary competition while drunk on white wine.
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TIL Fred Astaire got into show business after his mother planned a then-popular "brother and sister act" in vaudeville with his sister Adele. Fred refused to learn to dance at first, but eventually learned by mimicking his sister's steps
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TIL A species of bird called the Passenger Pigeon once numbered in the billions in the US, and flocks passing overhead would blot out the sun sometimes for hours or days. They were hunted to extinction for their meat by 1900.
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TIL: Muslims don’t believe Jesus was crucified, they think God replaced him with some poor bugger who looked like him.
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TIL Western Australia crowd sources emergency medical assistance through an app that alerts all qualified users within 500m of an emergency and provides a map with the location of every registered defibrillator in the state.