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TIL that the song "Timothy" by the Buoys is about cannibalism

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XNyr TIL A film titled “100 Years” starring John Malkovich, will be released in November 18, 2115. It is stored in a bulletproof vault which will automatically open for it’s premier at the Cannes Film Festival
9wZ7G TIL Quebec has an organization that enforces use of the French language by issuing fines or withholding business certificates to businesses that don't comply. Informally they're referred to as the "Language Police".
kZgg TIL Time, spatial, and memory distortions are common in police officers after shootings. One officer described a memory of “beer cans” floating past his face, with the word “Federal” printed on the bottom. They were the shell casings from the officer firing next to him.
eo9L TIL in 1988, a man named Robert W. Faid published a book mathematically “proving” that the Antichrist was Mikhail Gorbachev, with odds of exactly 710,609,175,188,282,000 to 1. He later won an Ig Nobel prize for it.
WDnd TIL that whenever al-Qaeda organised games of volleyball, Mohammed Atef and Osama Bin Laden were forced to be on separate teams since they were both tall, and skilled players.