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TIL that one reason Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t celebrate birthdays because the only two accounts of birthday parties in the Bible ended in murder.

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Rela TIL that, once, while on a tour bus, Busta Rhymes heard one of the songs on Eminem’s “Slim Shady EP” and got so into the music that he smashed his head on the windshield of the bus, breaking the whole windshield, because he said Eminem’s music was so compelling and powerful.
69BZZ TIL that the USA feared that the economic crisis Britain was undergoing in the late 70s could endanger NATO and the European Economic Community, and directed the US treasury to attempt to force domestic policy changes on the UK
VMWDG TIL of Roza Shanina, whose teenage brother was killed by Germans in WWII. Seeing how sad her mother was, she joined the Red Army as a 17-year old sniper and killed 59 Nazis as revenge.
RLJQ TIL that ‘Boyhood’, the film shot over the course of 12 years, only had a total of 39 days of filming.
NoRb TIL that frequent making of jokes, including puns, can be a diagnosed disorder, possibly caused by a stroke