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TIL thanks to tree rings, we know global cooling caused piracy.

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M7Xga TIL: Helium is generated by radioactive decay, is a non-renewable resource, physically escapes into space, is used in applications such as MRIs, breathing mixtures and welding gas, and has no substitute.
4NBb TIL That the original lyrics to the “Paradise City” verse were “Take me down to the Paradise City where the girls are fat and they’ve got big titties”
nYo9 TIL Mark Hamill voiced the pirate Captain Stickybeard in Codename: Kids Next Door, the ruler of the Fire Nation Fire Lord Ozai in Avatar: The Last Airbender, the evil Skeleton King in Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!, multiple roles in Metalocalypse and the groundskeeper Skips in Regular Show.
Oo8DR TIL public urinals or "Pissoirs" were used by the French Resistance during World War II as places to meet for a private conversation or to leave a message for someone without the Nazi’s finding out.
Eg6Rp TIL in 1976 Cleveland became the bombing capitol of America due to organized crime members bombing each other