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TIL Dr. Drew's first appearance on television was as a contestant on Wheel of Fortune.

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a4AL TIL: to counter terrorism during 2004 bus bombings in Israel, bus drivers used squirt guns to spray pig fat on suspected bombers; this way they refuse to detonate and meet allah unclean.
xVNkB TIL Rube Goldberg made his sons Thomas and George change their lastname to protect them from backlash from his political cartoons. Thomas chose the lastname George as a tribute to his brother, and in the spirit of family, George followed suit, voluntarily spending entire life going by George George.
QJVvL TIL that despite being a cliche, only one historical map actually uses the phrase "Here Be Dragons". The Hunt-Lenox Globe from 1504, one of the oldest globes in existence, uses the phrase on the east coast of Asia. It is believed to have been inspired by tales of Komodo Dragons from Indonesia.
ADrPl TIL of Alice Blunden, a woman who was so knocked out after having ingesting a large amount of poppy tea that a doctor pronounced her dead. She was quickly buried, but exhumed when people could hear her voice from the grave. She was so close to death, she was once again accidentally buried alive.
jNLDp TIL 13-yr-old Canadian boy Briar MacLean shoved a knife-wielding bully away from a classmate. School officials put Briar in detention and phoned his mother to say that he was wrong to act on his own, and they didn't "condone heroics." His mom rewarded her son & his friend with a trip to Disneyland.