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TIL that ESPN’s Mike Tirico once sent harassing emails to a female producer, then later confronted her saying, “If I was single, I would throw you on the table right here and fuck your brains out.” He then proceeded to follow her in his car for miles down I-84 before she took an exit in a panic

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REEj TIL The Japanese Embassy in Paris (France) has a 24-hour hotline for Japanese Tourists who develop debilitating psychological problems because the city is not as nice as they imagined it to be.
PYdmn TIL there's Mega Man comic-book series licensed by Capcom called "Novas Aventuras de Megaman" made by Brazilians, and is considered controversial for changing the plot and featuring partial nudity, gore, and swearing.
E14jx TIL of Judy Melinek, a medical examiner who identified hundreds of bodies from the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks, many of which were merely scraps of flesh or pieces of limb. She was called in mid-August 2002 because they had found a foot bone on top of another skyscraper 1/5 mile away.
e0QEg TIL that people used to castrate pre-pubescent boys before the 19th century to halt growth in their larynx to make them sound better and to rival Sopranos, Contraltos, etc. Doing this also increased their breathing capacity. This stopped in the late 19th centuries. They were called Castratos.
w7E8 TIL the World Trade Center still exists in the Muppet Christmas Movie when an angel shows Kermit the Frog what the world would be like if he hadn’t been born