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Today I learned that the Pokemon anime was banned in Turkey in 2000 when a 7-year-old girl jumped off a fifth-story balcony, pretending to be a Pokemon, and ended up breaking her leg.

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xVkP7 TIL that at least one person has been killed by a lava lamp. In 2004, Philip Quinn decided to heat his lava lamp on the kitchen stove. The lamp exploded, shooting a shard of glass into his heart and ending his life.
1anjr TIL of longplayer, a one thousand year long musical composition that is been playing since 31st of December 1999 and will continue till 2999.
Z8rVp TIL the claim on Cheerios' box that it could lower cholesterol by 4% was removed after the FDA warned General Mills that it was false advertising. GM fought back but eventually changed the box to read the cereal could lower cholesterol as part of a heart healthy diet.
XErDR TIL that thanks to new DNA technology and better evacuation tactics, there have been zero "unknown" soldiers from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In World War II there were 8,526.
m1gmY TIL about Alex and Donna Voutsinas, a now-married couple who were photographed together 15 years before they ever met during a random trip to Disney World as kids.