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TIL Karl Malone had a child when he was 20, and the mother was 13

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1aND8 TIL when Steve Buscemi was 4-years-old he was hit by a bus and managed to survive with a fractured skull. He received a $6,000 settlement from the city that was to be collected from a trust fund when he turned 18. When Buscemi turned 18, he used part of the money to pay for full-time acting classes.
aa7A TIL male horses masturbate by rhythmically slapping their penis against their stomach.
R5m8a TIL of an epic April Fool’s prank by BBC in 1957 - a 3 minute broadcast around a family in southern Switzerland harvesting spaghetti from a "spaghetti tree".
G0A5 TIL that some knife makers attach a coin to each knife they sell, to circumvent the superstition that giving someone a knife as a gift severs the relationship: the receiver can ‘pay’ for the knife by returning the coin to the person who gave the knife to them, turning the gift into a 'purchase’.
4G4N TIL- Japanese Climber Junko Tabei, First Woman To Conquer Mount Everest, Dies At 77.