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TIL It was never 'Bruce' in ELO's 'Don't Bring Me Down' instead a made-up place-keeper word Groos

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awr1M TIL Rob DenBleyker, known more as the creator of comic series Cyanide & Happiness, is also the creator of much-loved but much-forgotten Abobe Flash series Stick Death
N7DxQ TIL there is a 1000 years old Japanese poem about the fleetingness of existence, which uses each letter of the Japanese alphabet exactly once. The poem was used as a way to order the alphabet until the Meiji restauration
rRBXW TIL That fetuses have been known to masturbate in utero. In 1987, Dr. Israel Meizner published a paper on his observations of a fetus appearing to masturbate over the course of 15 minutes.
dDrOE TIL that an 18 year old called John Horwood was hanged for murder in Bristol and his skin was used to bind his trial transcripts. The transcript book is currently in the M Shed in Bristol’s Prince’s Wharf.
RvB9 TIL: A gay couple who were front and center in media supporting same-sex adoption later adopted a baby boy for the sole purpose of molesting him and did so for six years.