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TIL A 20 year old woman on Tinder successfully scammed many men with her profile that said “Send me $5, see what happens.”

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0Bwy TIL in 1977 Billy Joel’s poorly-performing single “Only the Good Die Young” was banned by WSOU-FM, affiliated with Seton Hall University, for its supposed anti-Catholic themes. Other dioceses then started putting pressure on local stations to ban it. As a result of the controversy, sales skyrocketed
6EvNm TIL over 1000 toads exploded in Hamburg as a result of crows pecking out their livers: terrified toads puffed up to scare away their attackers but with a hole in their bellies & no liver, they swelled up to ~4x their normal size, their lungs burst and the rest of the organs shot straight out of them
j68Na TIL that the human wave at sporting events moves at a speed of 20 seats per second
BgdQb TIL that French soldiers executed an estimated 300 African troops who demanded equal pay and better living conditions during WW2 under claims of mutiny in what became known as the "Thiaroye massacre"
YpNax TIL of the film Wake in Fright. Once thought to be lost, an original unedited print was rediscovered by its editor after a fervent search in a shipping container labelled 'for destruction' one week before it was scheduled to be destroyed. The film today is considered a classic of Australian cinema.