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TIL Johnny Knoxville permanently damaged his penis by breaking it doing a backflip on a motorcycle. He has described it as “like a dog’s chew toy” and “like a sock that’s lost its elasticity.”

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Kykw TIL: 7-Eleven Day (Free Slurpees at 7-Eleven) is celebrated on July 11 (7/11) in the northern hemisphere (summer) and November 7th (7.11) in the southern hemisphere (summer).
p0A8 TIL Weird Al Yankovic’s song “The Saga Begins”, which is about the plot of Star Wars Episode I, was mostly composed from internet spoilers before the movies release.
gMNQ8 TIL about a book called Cain’s Jawbone where a detective story is told through 100 pages, but the reader has to figure out the order of the pages to solve the mysteries. Only three people have solved it to date.
VZM4 TIL that the OED included a trap, made up word, “Esquivalience” which it defined to mean “the willful avoidance of one’s official responsibilities” as a copyright infringement trap which caught both Dictionary.com and Google Dictionary.
nWo9G TIL About the Great Vowel Shift: A period of time between 1400-1700 AD where modern English pronunciations of words took it's form, which is how far back in time you could travel before you could not longer converse effectively with others.