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TIL in 2014 original “Top Model” winner Adrianne Curry fended off an attacker with a bull whip while dressed as Catwoman at San Diego Comic Con

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9YOG TIL that there is a shipwreck in the Thames Estuary containing at least 1,400 tonnes of TNT high explosives including 2,000 cases of cluster bombs and if it exploded could be one of the largest non-nuclear explosions ever and create a small tsunami.
wok5M TIL Even though Lions live in the Savannah the reason they are called king of the Jungle is because the word Jungle comes from a Sanskrit word meaning uninhabited place. Not necessarily a forest
Akw4 TIL There is a woman running for president in Afghanistan in the 2014 elections.
oBNvr TIL That the New Zealand badminton team were called the "Black Cocks" however The International Badminton Federation (IBF) found the name hard to swallow and made them change it.
Y7xaG TIL Author Paek Nam-nyong is a household name in North Korea and his bestseller novel "Friend" became the first state-sanctioned novel available to English readers