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TIL that the sexual lubricant Astroglide was invented by a rocket scientist

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a59A TIL there is a stretch of highway in British Columbia that is nicknamed the “Highway of Tears” for its long history of murders and disappearance of predominantly aboriginal women
Wk0eA TIL a pod of orcas hunted cooperatively with early Australian whalers under a "law of the tongue". They would corral and locate prey in return for the tongues and lips of captured whales. The arrangement ended when one of the orcas was accidentally killed.
pYeO TIL the actor for Chucky in the Child’s Play movies, is also Grima Wormtongue from Lord of the Rings. And the voice of Piero in Dishonored.
VMXlB TIL That when the VOICE hotline was set up earlier this year for reporting criminal activity of illegal aliens, it was flooded with calls reporting space aliens and Bigfoot sightings
ynZv TIL that there has only been one confirmed case of a person being hit by a meteor. Ann Hodges was napping on the couch when the rock broke through her ceiling, bounced off her radio and bruised her upper thigh.