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TIL Bill Murray once got lost in the jungles of Bali on a motorbike. He was later found putting on an impromptu show with all of the locals of a small village in attendance, even though he didn’t speak Balinese.

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M7ODA TIL a one-legged clown was convicted of murdering an heiress in Chicago in 1912 and was sentenced to life in prison, but he escaped and was never found.
7Gbb TIL there are languages without the terms “Left, Right, Front, and Behind.” These cultures use “North, South, East, and West” their whole lives no matter if they are in a room or in the woods. The result is a compass brain. They always know how they are oriented.
6EMNJ TIL on average Mercury, not Mars or Venus, is the closest planet to Earth
Y7MZP TIL the U.S. Virgin Islands used to be called the Danish West Indian Islands. At the time the islands were nominally under the control of the King of Denmark, but were given up through a treaty.
D104P TIL up until the tail-end of the 18th century, tomatoes were considered poisonous, and nicknamed the “poisonous apple.” It wasn’t until 1820, when Colonel Robert Johnson ate an entire basket of the fruit, that those myths were proven false