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TIL of Justine Sacco who before a flight to South Africa in 2013 tweeted to her 170 followers "Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just Kidding. I'm white!" By the time she landed she was the number one trending topic in the world and had been fired

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KOoda TIL the actor for Gaston as Disney World killed himself after accidentally lighting a firework on his head
E1LBw TIL there was a 12th Amendment that was passed by Congress that, with the current US population, would require 6,658 members of the House of Representatives.
YpJax TIL that huffing gasoline is a real form of substance abuse and that it causes actual highs and hallucinations. It is also one of the most commonly abused household items for lower class people and also one of the most dangerous.
GM8E TIL That Winter Storms Are Not Named by the National Weather Service (There’s No Official Naming System)- Instead The Weather Channel Does, After Their Marketing Department Saw An Opportunity in Late 2011
d8DxZ TIL using Fluid Dynamics to study the question, "Can a Cat Be Both a Solid and a Liquid?" won Marc-Antoine Fardin the Ig Nobel Physics Prize on September 14, 2017.