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TIL Dave Matthews is embroiled in a never-ending slap fight with his close friend and guitar builder Brian Calhoun

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BrWnW TIL that this is the 100th anniversary of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre where the British gunned down 1500 peaceful Indian protesters in 10 minutes. Colonel Dryer, the man who ordered the massacre said he “wanted to punish Indians for disobedience.”
x6Pk1 TIL that NASA engineers designed a make up kit because they thought female astronauts would want make up in space
OodAX TIL 50-80% of our oxygen comes from plants and bacteria in the ocean which is more than the amount all tropical rainforests on land produce combined
rRkj4 TIL There is an endangered 6-foot long earthworm which is so big that you can actually hear from above ground as it moves through its subterranean burrows
gN69 TIL $100,000,000 lawsuit claiming the film Sister Act was plagiarized from a book A Nun in the Closet. Disney offered $1,000,000 to settle of out court the but the plaintiffs declined. Eventually the judge found in favor of Disney and the other defendants, the plaintiffs got nothing.