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TIL in 1985, the song "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" gained notoriety at an lowa radio station when a DJ played the song 27 times back-to-back during a morning show. The DJ, who was suspended, was reportedly depressed and upset that a co-worker had left the job.

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b9Bgj TIL that 95% of all Thoroughbred racehorses can be traced back to a single 18th-century stallion
vbxx TIL there was a punishment called “Derby’s dose”, in which “[A] runaway [slave] would be beaten, and salt pickle, lime juice, and bird pepper would be rubbed into their open wounds. Another slave would defecate into the mouth of the miscreant, who would then be gagged for hours.”
6ENLl TIL During his 2009 TED talk, Bill Gates opened a jar of mosquitoes saying “Malaria is spread by mosquitoes. I brought some… I’ll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people should be infected” and waited for about a minute before telling the audience that the bugs were malaria-free.
N7ynN TIL the majority of nukes ever detonated were done so outside Las Vegas -- over 1,000. You could see mushroom clouds from the hotels.
jdJR TIL that the Iphone manual says that when using your phone, it should be kept 15 millimetres from your body. BlackBerry suggests that users keep the phone 25 millimetres from their body.