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TIL a video recording of the last moments aboard the columbia shuttle was found in the debris undamaged

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PYQWE TIL McDonald's is one of the largest owners of real estate in the world and it earns the majority of its profits from collecting rent, not from selling food.
1aE1V TIL that Lorri Bagley, the actress who played the woman in the famous skinny dipping scene from the film Tommy Boy, had actually dated Chris Farley in 1993.
1nJd TIL According to a 1996 study, 80% of homophobic subjects and 34% of non-homophobic subjects became aroused when shown gay porn. The study used 64 self-reported straight males.
0dw6R TIL about the Banquet of Blood, an 8th century banquet during which the Abbasids wiped out 80 members of the preceding Umayyads. The dying and dead were covered with a leather carpet and the meal proceeded.
N74V6 TIL the British made up the idea that carrots improved eyesight during World War 2 as a reason for their war pilots’ good “eyesight” when really they were trying to hide their new radar tech.