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TIL as a kid, Ice-T had his bike stolen. He told his father about it; he simply shrugged and said: "Well, then, you ain't got no bike." Ice-T then stole parts from various bicycles and assembled "three or four weird-looking, brightly-painted bikes" from the parts. His father never even noticed.

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omVR TIL on July 17, 1938, Douglas “Wrong Way” Corrigan entered aviation infamy and gained his nickname when he “accidentally” flew from New York to California but ended up in Ireland after being denied permission to cross the Atlantic by authorities.
jaQN TIL that the word “Sioux” is not actually a word. It is a partial word from “Nadowessioux” which is an insult that means “little snakes.” The tribes associated with this nomenclature are actually the Dakota, the Lakota, and the Nakota.
jWgn TIL Evolution doesn’t “plan” to improve an organism’s fitness to survive; it is simply a goalless process where random mutations can aid, hinder or have no effect on an organism’s ability to survive and reproduce
Dn0e Today I learned that in 1680, the time of the Puritans, an X-rated sex manual was sold in mainstream bookstores called “This Misterie of Fucking.” It promoted premarital sex and masturbation and contained crude etchings of different positions.
78W8r TIL about Sebastianism, a cult which believes Portuguese King Sebastião I was never killed in battle and will return when Portugal needs him the most. The last Sebastianists are found on a Brazilian island where the locals say he's been reincarnated as a bull.