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TIL The current Afghanistan head of state Ashraf Ghani is the first peaceful transfer of power since the Afghan state was founded

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kJe5m Til poles at strip clubs spin, not the strippers on them.
Ag0x TIL there is an Ig Nobel Prize for unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research. This year’s winners include Arturas Zuokas, the mayor of Vilnius, LITHUANIA, for demonstrating that the problem of illegally parked luxury cars can be solved by running them over with an armored tank.
v1bE4 TIL: Wikimedia Commons hosts the iconic golden age porn flick "Debbie Does Dallas" in its entirety because it is in the public domain. Despite the movie selling over 50k video tapes, the producers never registered for a copyright within 5 years of the release.
rR5Wy TIL that the Bone Wars were a period in which two paleontologists, Othniel Marsh and Edward Cope, searched for dinosaur fossils competitively, to the point of bribery, theft and destroying bones to keep them away from each other. They discovered over 130 species, but both were financially ruined.
5wp TIL there was a bridge in southern Hungary that was found to still be rigged with dynamite from World War II…in October of 1999.