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TIL the 35-yr-old owner of a boat called "Naut Guilty" was found not guilty in a boating incident. Another man was at the helm who failed to put the boat into neutral as a 19-yr-old woman swam near the boat; she lost her arm in the propeller. Both men pleaded guilty to furnishing alcohol to minors.

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Ka4Q TIL that ‘Gangnam style’ was intended to poke fun at people who put on airs and pretended to be fashionable or classy, like people from the Gangnam district of Seoul
worg8 TIL that both Republicans and Democrats nominated Horace Greeley in 1872 and he still lost the election in a landslide.
GYmG5 TIL, on the day of bombing on Hiroshima, within the first three seconds 1000s of people were incinerated as the temperature at the burst-point reached 60 million degrees centigrade- 10000 times hotter than the Sun's surface.
p8EY4 TIL All people have large bumps in V-form on the back of their tongues.
LyeZ TIL that in order to highlight the dangers of using a phone while driving, Belgian road safety experts told a group of learner drivers they must avoid obstacles whilst texting in order to get their licence