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TIL Maryland's state song is just a rip off of "Oh Christmas Tree"

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XNBQ TIL a pig named Lulu saved her owner’s life while the woman was having a heart attack. The pig heard the cries of pain, forced her way out of the yard, ran into the road and played ‘dead’ to stop the traffic. A driver stopped, the pig let him to the trailer, he heard women and called 911.
Lk04P TIL a man in NYC was punched in the face for looking like Shia LaBeouf. When the story caught the real LaBeouf’s attention, he offered the man his phone number and apologized profusely in a voicemail
MeKoK TIL on the last day of filming the Titanic movie, James Cameron was stabbed in the face by a cast member with a pen while feeling violently ill. 60 cast and crew were sent to the hospital feeling delirious and sick. Once food poisoning was ruled out they realized the chowder had been laced with PCP.
0LWN TIL that the first Sherlock Holmes book “A Study in Scarlet” was the first work of fiction to mention a magnifying glass being used as an investigative tool and is the reason we still connect this item with detectives today
7rO5M TIL That bears don’t poop while hibernating. Instead, their body creates a “fecal plug” which can be 7-15 inches long and 1-2.5 inches in diameter.