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TIL the women who discovered Heath Ledger called Mary Kate Olsen instead of 911 when she discovered the body, and Olsen refused to talk to the cops unless she was granted immunity, despite the cops not accusing her of anything. Her lawyer denied that she had anything to do with the drugs found.

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4XYyw TIL that, after a virgin drowned at sea in S. Korea, fishermen weren't able to catch fish anymore. But the fish came back after fishermen exposed their penises to the sea and built several giant wooden statues near the sea to appease the dead virgin's spirit. The place is a tourist spot now
wOKP TIL that Freddie Mercury is celebrated in Iran, a country where homosexuality is illegal, and that Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” was the 1st rock song officially approved post-revolution since he calls for God in Arabic (“Bismillah! We will not let you go”) to help regain his soul from Shaitan.
N7BdM TIL the only police officer to arrest a sitting President was William H. West, a black Civil War veteran. He arrested President Ulysses S. Grant for speeding on his horse in 1872, for which the President paid a $20 bond.
xVVW7 TIL that in WW2 China flooded the Yellow River intentionally to stop the advance of the Japanese troops
J1JKQ TIL that at the time of the French Revolution the majority of people in France did not speak French. It is estimated that at the time of the French Revolution in 1789, only half of the population of France could speak French, and as late as 1871 only a quarter spoke French as their native language.