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TIL Jimmy “The Rent is Too Damn High” McMillan climbed the Brooklyn Bridge and refused to come down from it unless television stations broadcasted his message.

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NXj1P TIL a 2014 study found that males represented 88.7% of all Darwin Award winners selected between 1995-2014. "Darwin Award winners eliminate themselves in an extraordinarily idiotic manner, thereby improving our species' chances of long-term survival."
nDaW TIL Mattel once tried to sue Aqua over their song “Barbie Girl”. The judge literally told them to “chill”.
R7wg8 TIL that in 2006, a Norwegian woman living in an apartment above a pub, suddently found her kitchen tap pouring beer, and not water, due to a plumbing error in the pub.
e0ovJ TIL a study of 200 stand-ups showed that they died young, at an average age of 67.1, compared to actors, 70.7. The funnier they were, the shorter they lived. The funny one in a comedy duo was likely to die younger than the straightman.
8aD94 TIL Harriet Tubman suffered a violent head injury as a child causing her to frequently slip into into sleep like states. These would produce vivid dreamlike hallucinations that Tubman interpreted as messages from god, to devote her life to freeing southern slaves through the Underground Railroad.