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TIL that blink-182 was forced by the American Red Cross to remove a red cross from the artwork for their album "Enema of the State" as it was a violation of the international Geneva Conventions.

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8aAmK TIL Sir John Harington (born 1560), known as the inventor of the flush toilet, is related to Kit Harington (born 1986) of Game of Thrones fame. It’s also why some people refer to the toilet as the ‘john’.
Bg8Be TIL that Zambia entered the 1964 Olympics as a British Colony and exited it as an independent country, gaining independence on the same day as the closing cereomny
V8kZ TIL players of an online game called Foldit resolved the structure of an enzyme in just three weeks.
jN89j TIL the patron saint of horses and prisons, Hippolytus, was also one of the first antipopes.
gkdb TIL in Aug 1914 the Frank Lloyd Wright’s estate in WI was set on fire by a male servant. The servant then killed Wright’s mistress Mamah Cheney, her 2 children and 4 estate workers with an axe. Afterwards he drank muriatic acid but was caught and died in jail 7 weeks later from self starvation.