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TIL Buddy Holly proposed to his wife on their first date (her first date ever), and married 2 months later. 6 months later he died in a plane crash which she heard about on TV, and suffered a miscarriage. Due to this, the policy on when publicly releasing the name of the deceased was changed.

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0wKZ5 TIL that Maurizio Cattelan, the artist who made the famous $120K duct-taped banana dubbed "Comedian," later made a fully-functional 227 lb 18k gold toilet dubbed "America". The toilet, estimated to be worth $5 million, was stolen the night after installation into Blenheim Palace in the UK.
GYxPN TIL Ducklings can engage in cannibalistic behaviours due to boredom, overcrowding, lack of ventilation, and poor nutrition.
Akxl TIL while looking for a lost hammer with a metal detector in 1993, a man in England found the largest hoard of late Roman silver and gold ever discovered in Britain. It was worth £1.75m (£2.66m today).
Wk7pX TIL the tinkers and tinker's craft (mending utensils with wires) originated from Slovakia in 18th century
XEBZD TIL of the 'Battle of Brisbane' (1942), a standoff between American soldiers and Australian citizens leading to one death and hundreds of injured on both sides. The reports were censored to preserve wartime morale.