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TIL it’s cummerbund and not cumberbund

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Ay0w TIL After Tom Waits denied Audi permission to use his song “Innocent while you dream”, they did so anyway and he succesfully sued them, afterwards saying “Now they understand the words to the song better… It wasn’t Innocent When You Scheme, it was Innocent When You Dream.”
bpDE TIL that there’s a stinging tree called the Gympie Gympie that produces a toxin so painful, it’s driven people and animals to suicide. It’s been described as being sprayed with hot acid and electrocuted at the same time. A man was reported to have shot himself after using the tree as toilet paper.
LkKy0 TIL about the Murder of Dora Bloch. Bloch was a 75 year old woman that was a hostage on Air France Flight 138. She was taken to a hospital and later killed by officials.
5VMBk TIL that during the last months of World War II, the Germans, British, and Americans agreed to a limited ceasefire to allow the the Allies to airdrop food to starving Dutch civilians
DQEej TIL Eddie Slovik is the only American soldier to be court-martialled and executed for desertion since the American Civil War.