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TIL every fig has a dead wasp in it.

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9wDX7 TIL that ancient Singapore Stone was written in an unknown language, and may never be deciphered.
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0ejv TIL that when Dan Ackroyd and Harold Ramis mailed Bill Murray their script for “Ghostbusters 3,” he mailed it back shredded with the note “No-one wants to pay money to see fat, old men chasing ghosts”
Y7XWv TIL George V’s death was purposely expedited by his doctor when he injected the Kings jugular vein with morphine and cocaine. Some have called it euthanasia, others, murder.
rlp4 TIL In 2001 a judge sentenced a 17 year old boy, arrested for paraphernalia, to listen to Afroman’s “Because I Got High” and write a three paragraph report about it.