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TIL that common consumer fireworks can kill you if you're underwater with them when they detonate

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dDmy8 TIL about Buried Penis
jbJn TIL, during the height of Beatlemania, John Lennon’s estranged father was a dishwasher and got an opportunity to record a song. John was furious at his father’s attempt to cash in on his success and demanded the song pulled from the charts. It was and the elder Lennon went back to washing dishes.
NpmJ TIL a gay bar in Australia was granted an exemption to anti-discrimination laws in 2011, allowing it to ban women because they made the men uncomfortable. The Human Rights Commissioner supported the exemption.
x4Nb TIL Alexander Bell never called his wife or his mother after inventing the telephone because they were both deaf
BgBEb TIL that in 2014, scientists discovered a 30,000-year-old virus in Siberian permafrost. Named Pithovirus sibericum, it was still infectious and started killing amoebae, raising concerns about the potential release of unknown pathogens due to Arctic ice melting or drilling.