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TIL In 2014 two chemists co-authored a paper describing all those consumer products appropriately labelled as “chemical free”. The paper was blank.

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neBD7 TIL that elephants can dance and move their heads to beats
oBaZA TIL of Whitney Cerak. In 2006 she was involved in a vehicular accident in Indiana that left her in comatose and badly injured. But there was a mixed up. She was misidentified as the other lady who actually died. The other family & friends took care of her. The mistake was seen only after 5 weeks.
OZ04 TIL in 1970, about 200 members of the Youth International Party, AKA Yippies, invaded and occupied Disneyland’s Tom Sawyer Island and had to be removed by riot police, causing the 2nd of only 4 unscheduled closings in Disneyland history.
W7xk4 TIL of the Church War of Jonesboro, a bloody feud in early 1930s Jonesboro, Arkansas between followers of fundamentalist evangelist Joe Jeffers and Reverend Dow H. Heard, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Jonesboro. Things got out of hand so bad, the Arkansas National Guard had to be called in.
oXLW TIL that while Iran punishes homosexuality with the death penantly, they allow transgender people to the extent that the country performs more sex-change surgeries than any other, except Thailand.