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TIL in 2010 a Kentucky man was beaten and forced at gunpoint to eat his own beard during a dispute over the price of a used riding lawnmower.

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lovm7 TIL that last year a 70-year-old butcher in the south of England who became locked in his walk-in freezer, used a 1.5kg roll of black pudding to escape from the -20 degree celsius temperatures by using it as a battering ram
P1L4E TIL ABBA has only given two artists permission to sample one of their songs: Madonna for her 2005 hit "Hung Up"; and the Fugees for "Rumble in the Jungle" for the soundtrack of the film When We Were Kings.
XEjoj TIL that Idaho dropped beavers with parachutes from airplanes because the beavers we're destroying rich people's summer homes.
7rRWP TIL the term "ZIP" code is actually an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan, was introduced in the 40's only for large cities, and was a signature mark for the USPS to give the impression that the mail would "zip" along faster if citizens used it.
yQmxV TIL about Drayton Daugherty, a doctor who cured a dying man by pretending to undo a voodoo hex in a last ditch effort after modern medicine didn't work. The man believed he was cured and lived for ten more years.