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TIL The Onion was founded by Seann William Scott’s brother

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e0YW4 TIL of the Kengir Gulag Uprising, where inmates assumed control over a camp. Due to the large body of educated inmates the 40 days of freedom saw the creation of plays, an ex-noble organizing a café, priests organizing marriages, engineers creating improvised radios and a hydroelectric powerstation
woVkJ TIL that Laura Branigan's "Spanish Eddie" song is about a real person, an NYC gangster and then a city Youth Services Agency agent, who successfully organized and almost succeeded in establishing a truce between most of the city street gangs to reduce violence, and got shot while realizing the plan.
W7p0A TIL: Most people can legally buy a personal commercial airplane such as a Boeing 737 as long as they can afford to pay 10s to 100s of millions of dollars for one.
pYWEG TIL a man survived a gunshot wound to the head and managed to carry on life as normal with the bullet in his head, even resuming his previous job
kOOjE TIL of the Cistus plant which can self-ignite on fire under hot dry conditions, due to oils in its leaves.