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TIL George Carlin used so much cocaine, he once told his 11 year old daughter that he thought the sun had exploded and they only had 7 ½ minutes left to live.

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kO1rm TIL that in 2002, a widely-watched live TV special followed a robot as it crawled through a 5" opening in the Great Pyramid of Giza, punched a hole in a door at the end of the passage, and inserted a fiber optic camera into the hole. Behind the door was nothing but a small empty space.
e04Z5 TIL of “The Petition of the Sharks of Africa.” An 18th Century satirical letter written to the British Parliament asking them NOT to abolish slave trading. The “sharks” were angry that slave ships would no longer sink and asked for mercy so loyal shark subjects wouldn’t starve.
a8nky TIL Less than half the population can actually smell asparagus pee
9YrN7 TIL how Spanish runner Iván Fernández Anaya intentionally lost a race. Kenyan runner and race leader Abel Mutai stopped 10-20 meters short of the finish line, thinking he had already won. Instead of passing him, Anaya stopped and told Mutai to keep running, thus allowing Mutai to win.
6Ep57 TIL Johnny Cash's "Hurt" is a cover of Nine Inch Nails, and not the other way around