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TIL there's an America's Best Restroom Competition.
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TIL two brothers died in NYC in 1947: one was killed by his own booby trap bringing food to his blind/paralyzed brother, who then starved to death in the maze of 140 tons of hoarded items in their house.
e1Wb
TIL that in 1974 fundamentalist Christians in Kanawha County were so upset over “immoral” books like “Autobiography of Malcolm X” being introduced to local schools they dynamited a school, attacked school buses with shotguns, and planted a bomb at a school board member’s home.
rnax
TIL During Apartheid in South Africa, Glasgow renamed the street which at the time was the address of the South African Consulate from St George’s Place to Nelson Mandela Place. Consular officials would be forced to look at his name when reading and addressing postal correspondence.
W1BA
TIL that Pope Clement VIII like coffee so much he baptized it so Christians could drink it without going to hell.
gblD
TIL that airline workers are classified as radiation workers (like people in nuclear power plants), because of how much exposure they get due to cosmic radiation making it through the thinner atmosphere while flying.