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TIL Lord Byron's character Don Juan is properly pronounced "don jew-one"

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QNGLp TIL that in an unrivaled capacity to taunt the enemy US Army General Matthew Ridgway would stand in the middle of a road under heavy artillery fire and urinate to demonstrate his contempt for German accuracy. Aides and fellow generals repeatedly begged him to abandon this bravado. He ignored them.
XpOj TIL Airlines are beginning to use charcoal in their seats to absorb the smell of your farts
WmNX TIL: wombats do cube-shaped poops so they can mark their territory with poop without it rolling away in the wind.
XORk TIL a man named Gregory W. Nemitz claimed ownership of Asteroid 433 Eros, on which NEAR Shoemaker landed in 2001. His company Orbital Development issued NASA a parking ticket for $20.
D4mJ TIL: When “Lose Yourself” won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, not only was Eminem not there to accept the award, he was asleep during the ceremony because he believed he would not win.