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TIL that Steve Irwin did a collaboration with The Wiggles!

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Brmde TIL I learned that the idea of "pure blood" stems from the practive of the eucharist, which wasn't common until the 12th century.
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8W1V TIL a journalist suffered a massive stroke, woke up completely paralyzed except for his left eyelid, and wrote his memoir over the course of ten months just by blinking. He died 10 days after the book was released to fantastic reviews.
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xWN1 TIL that in 2001, Vince Vaughn and Steve Buscemi got into a bar brawl with North Carolina locals, with Vaughn getting maced and Buscemi being stabbed in the face, jaw, and neck