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TIL a Man Saved A Drowning 400-lb Black Bear.

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8gdV TIL Rick James’ life was saved by nursing his horrible hangover. The hangover left him immobile and unable to attend a party being thrown by his friend Jay Sebring and Sharon Tate. Jay Sebring, Sharon Tate and other guests were murdered that night by the Charles Manson clan.
R7vgj TIL the Quartering Act of 1765 did not force colonists host British troops in their homes as commonly believed. Rather, it called for construction of barracks, and if no room, housing was extended to “inns, livery stables, ale houses, victualling houses, and the houses of sellers of wine.”
N7daE TIL that before the coup d'état in 1953 Mohammad Mosaddegh was regarded as the leading champion of secular democracy and resistance to foreign domination in Iran’s modern history, and that the coup partly took place because Iran nationalized its oil industry.
wLP6M TIL: Grand Theft Auto V broke industry sales records and became the fastest-selling entertainment product in history, earning $800 million in its first day and $1 billion in its first three days.
rR7QM TIL that the Spartans actually surrendered, they were not as mighty as hyped to be. They surrendered to an Athenian army at the Battle of Sphacteria. And i'm not talking about some low key warriors, they were Spartan elites. 120 of them.