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TIL George Lucas’ oldest daughter is a winning-record MMA fighter

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b6M4E TIL that Tea clipper Cutty Sark is named after a character of the poem: Tam O’Shanter by Robert Burns. Where the witch, Nannie wears a cutty sark (short nightgown).
5Ra8 TIL that in 1974, Basil Brown, a 48-year-old health food advocate from Croydon, England, drank himself to death by consuming 10 gallons (37.85 litres) of carrot juice in ten days, causing him to overdose on vitamin A and suffer severe liver damage.
PYD5E TIL two Alaskan islands were occupied by Japan in WWII.
V6DD TIL in 1996 a man named Larry Rutman hit himself in the head with a boomerang. He successfully sued himself for US$ 300,000, with the entire payout coming from his insurance
B4ky TIL in Fucking, Austria, after the residents voted against changing the Town’s name, the mayor stated “Fucking is Fucking—and it’s going to stay Fucking.”