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TIL Stephen Colbert has four bug species named after him, grew up two blocks away from his future wife, and is an ordained minister

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Obe6 TIL there’s a Japanese word for testing your new sword by killing a random passer-by. It’s tsuji-giri (辻斬り), literally ‘crossroads killing’
WkM8A TIL of Randy, the Guinea Pig that broke into the female enclosure at his Zoo, and impregnated around 100 females in 2014. He then became a father of around 400 babies.
PYJkn TIL a 1970 episode of Hawaii Five-O featured a hanging method copied by a viewer of the show who died trying the technique. Their family sued CBS and the episode has never been rebroadcast and was excluded from DVD releases
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d8A7 TIL that Leonard Cohen wrote over 80 verses for his widely-coverd song “Hallelujah.” The version recorded by former Velvet Underground member John Cale, the first of over 100 recorded covers and the basis for the iconic Jeff Buckley rendition, was made from 15 pages of lyrics faxed to him by Cohen.