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TIL Dwayne Johnson knew about Osama Bin Laden's assassination before we did - and broke the news on Twitter

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rNJ5W TIL Squidward is canonically an octopus and not a squid
BgORL TIL that in 1943, Canadian legislation created a temporary extraterritorial space for the birth of Princess Margriet of the Netherlands. This ensured that Margriet was not born on foreign soil, which would have made her ineligible for the royal succession under the Constitution of the Netherlands.
A7XB TIL a 2005 FX docudrama (“Oil Storm”) portended a major hurricane hitting New Orleans causing citizens to take refugee in the Superdome and a resulting national increase in gas price… A scant three months before Katrina.
P1eZg TIL TGI Fridays stopped requiring employees to wear flair after Office Space came out and customers began making jokes about the flair
b9lWp TIL as recently as 2014, almost 30 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, 1 in 3 wild boars in Germany are still too radioactive for humans to consume. In fact, some are more than 15 times the legal limit and the contamination is thought to originate nearly 700 miles away.