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TIL that in a footnote buried in the Starr Report Monica Lewinsky testified to tossing Bill’s salad (Note 28)

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6WZQ TIL that the Dali Lama is not in fact a vegetarian, but a meat eater.
6EGJQ TIL of the “Tully Monster” an ancient creature so strange researchers have yet to agree whether it’s a vertebrate or an invertebrate.
e0j5k TIL Betta fish are very intelligent. They have been known to be able to recognize their owners. There are even some Betta fish that can do tricks like pushing a tiny ball through a ring using their nose. This is something that most fish are incapable of.
7rpDZ TIL local ABC affiliates owned by Sinclair Media refused to air "Saving Private Ryan" when it was aired nationally on Veterans Day 2004. Sinclair judged that the movie was "obscene" because it "contains numerous unedited uses of the F-word".
9YAaD TIL about Ewa Wiśnierska, a german paraglider that got surprised by a thunderstorm and got sucked up by a cumulonimbus cloud to an altitude of 10.000m (33.000ft). She survived temperatures of -50*C and extreme oxygen deprivation at a height higher than the Mt. Everest.