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TIL Elton John once bought a tram while on a 3-day cocaine binge. He had the vehicle shipped from Australia, and two Chinook helicopters were needed to deliver it to his house.

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6EbjQ TIL about Ted Slauson who memorized hundreds of prices for prizes on “The Price is Right," and he helped a constant guess the exact price on the Showcase Showdown
ADxMd TIL The number of students caught cheating at the UK's top universities (including Oxford and Cambridge) increased by a third in three years. There was a surge in cases of academic misconduct.
5VO88 TIL about Multiocular O (ꙮ), a rare glyph variant of the Cyrillic letter O. Only one single use of this glyph is know, in a 15th century manuscript, in the Old Church Slavonic phrase "серафими многꙮ҄читїи"
9WJG TIL: You can go to jail for a year for declawing a pet cat in Israel.
aw84y Not really, but urine has been a faddish health drink for centuries nonetheless. Celts in the Iberian peninsula gargled it to whiten their teeth about 50 years before Christ; amaroli is a Sanskrit word that refers to urine therapy, which in ancient Ayurvedic practice meant imbibing urine in the morning, mid stream; Proverbs 5:15 is thought to be in support of the act ("Drink waters from thy own cistern, flowing water from thy own well"); and J.D. Salinger famously sipped his own, as did the former prime minister of India, Morarji Desai, who even appeared on 60 Minutes to defend his habit.Click here to launch a gallery about urine therapy.