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yyBX TIL R. Kelly was once arrested for playing his own music too loud in his car.
OGkLe TIL In August 1854, armed with pistols, swords and clubs hundreds of mutually antagonistic Chinese miners from the same region — the Pearl River Delta — fought a pitched battle on the outskirts of California town, Weaverville
Yp417 TIL the original word for a Bear was 'Arkto' but our proto-Germanic ancestors started referring to them as 'bear' which meant 'brown one.' This practice came from a superstitious fear that speaking the predators name would summon him. This is one of the earliest examples of a euphemism.
KO556 TIL that during the second Vatican Council, a Cardinal from Belgium shouted "Why are we even discussing the future of the Church when half the Church is not even here?" Referring to the lack of women religious on the Council. 23 women were then appointed as auditors
XJVQ TIL CNN had 50 people covering the aftermath of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. But assigned more then 400 to England’s royal wedding.