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TIL that McDonalds redesigned their McFlurry cups because hedgehogs used to get stuck in them, and die.

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P1PBV TIL about Ryleyev Kondraty Fodorovich a poet who was sentenced to be hung for this role in the Decembrist Uprising. The rope broke which usually led to a pardon, seen as divine intervention but he said, "In Russia not know how to do anything properly, not even how to make a rope." He was hung again
6Wnm TIL that a sailor divided by zero and caused the USS Yorktown’s (CG-48) network system to fail, leaving it dead in the water.
AJ6n TIL Kent made the film The Babadook with the intent of addressing the fear of going mad during motherhood, “Now, I’m not saying we all want to go and kill our kids, but a lot of women struggle. And it is a very taboo subject, to say that motherhood is anything but a perfect experience for women.”
0dwK1 TIL of Petra Williams a woman who catfished her niece Marisa online to teach her a lesson on dangers of social media. Marisa brought strange men home she met online. Turns out Marisa was actively looking for someone to murder the family and asked her aunt's fake persona to do it for her.
DQ05r TIL that Samuel L. Jackson was one of the ushers at Martin Luther King's funeral held at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia after his assassination in 1968.