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TIL a football referee was injured in Maine after being shot by a loaded cannon

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1jKV TIL Gangsta’s Paradise is one of the few Coolio songs to not feature profanity because it was the only way Stevie Wonder would authorise the sampling of his song ‘Pastime Paradise’
b9Yn4 TIL that adult mayflies don't have a functioning mouth or digestive system, simply because they don't live long enough to need them.
4XXYJ TIL the first e-commerce was a drugs deal in the early 1970s
nWKd7 TIL of barnacles - marine arthropods which - after a point in their life-cycle - live permanently attached to substrate - this is problematic, since they reproduce sexually - a penis of up to eight times their body length! - resolves this issue, allowing them to mate across vast distances.
E7g0 TIL that Psychological research shows that roughhousing is important to childhood development. It teaches communications skills, rule negotiation, and how to communicate verbally and non verbally. In reality, children not allowed to horseplay are more likely to be more violent later in life.