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TIL there is an Iraqi version of “Punk’d” where they plant fake bombs in celebrity’s cars.

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M7DwA TIL After flying into Earth orbit in Apollo 7, Donn Eisele and his crew never went to space again, as divorce and a testy crew commander led to the astronauts being labeled as troublemakers. Unknown to everyone, Eisele wrote a detailed memoir that was only discovered and published after his death
ZLoQ TIL that the author of ‘Fight Club’ once played a David Bowie track repeatedly on a jukebox to annoy other novelists that were trying to pitch a book to a publisher at a bar. It worked and the movie adaptation was made a few years later.
58kR TIL the classic circus song is called Entry of the Gladiators and is meant to be serious
6Emrl TIL When Andrew Johnson tried to fire his Secretary of War Stanton, Stanton refused to leave and locked himself in his office for weeks, refusing to let his successor in.
BwjK TIL that crows pass the ‘marshmallow test’: they resist the temptation to eat a food if they know a tastier treat is coming later. This test of self-control is used to assess mental development in humans.