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TIL indie musician Paz planted 5000 copies of his own album into wrapped CD cases resembling Justin Bieber’s “Believe”, down to the bar code and cover, at major retailers. Paz stated retailers made it impossible to get indie music sold there and that ‘the world won’t really miss a Bieber record’.

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kOkv1 TIL of Gavel, a K-9 Cadet who was fired from the Police Academy for being too friendly after months of training; he then got a new job as Vice-Regal Dog for the Office of the Governor in Queensland where he greets visitors, attends official functions, sits in on Governor's briefings
pYnKQ TIL that lawyer Garry Hoy, in an attempt to demonstrate to his students that their office building's windows were unbreakable, threw himself against a window. The glass did not break but the window frame gave way, causing him to fall 24 stories to his death.
WD7N TIL Ancient Romans living in Pompeii had, by in large, better teeth than we do now thanks to their low-sugar diets and high fluorine content in the air and water from the nearby volcano.
9B6p TIL The most famous Romanian author survived the Holocaust, only to be hit by a truck as he was going to teach his first university lecture a few months after the Nazis were kicked out of Romania.
7r4Gb TIL that motorcycle world champion, Barry Sheene, enjoyed smoking so much that he had a hole drilled through the chin-bar on his full-face helmet allowing him to smoke right up to the start of a race. He died aged 52 from cancer of the oesophagus and stomach.