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TIL the TV show “Jackass” was sued by a Montana resident named Jack Ass who claimed the show was defaming his name. He said it took two years to file the suit because he couldn’t find a lawyer.

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b9k17 TIL that you absolutely can pick up baby birds and their parents will not reject them as a result.
nxM9 TIL in 1911 British Antarctic explorer George Murray Levick observed the sexual habits of an Adélie Penguin rookery. The habits included necrophilia, coercion and homosexuality. The report was deemed too indecent at the time and was only published in 2012.
GANvN TIL punk band The Sex Pistols were a manufactured band created as way to promote a clothing store.
LQk8d TIL about the HMS Victoria, a 340’ battleship that collided with another ship in 1893 and sank. But when it sank it slammed into the seafloor with so much force that 3/4 of the ship is sticking out of the seafloor at a 90 degree angle
0lvN TIL in 1962 the USSR decided to test a 300kt nuclear bomb in space over a populated area, the resulting EMP fused 350 miles of telephone lines, shut down 621 miles of buried power cables and burnt down a power station. The following year they signed & ratified a treaty banning tests in outer space.