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TIL: A slave called Gordon escaped from the South and used onions to throw the bloodhounds of his scent

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dDA8d TIL of Molly and Clay Daniels, a couple who committed insurance fraud. They dug up a corpse, burned it in a car, and pretended it was the husband that died. They then went around introducing Clay as Molly's "new" boyfriend to everyone, including their own kids.
EgZbp TIL they made a "Clerks" TV show that was so bad they never even aired the pilot episode.
y65p TIL upon the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the phrase “London Bridge is down” will announce her death to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. This will set into motion “Operation London Bridge” (formed in the 1960s), which is the code name for what will happen in the days after she dies.
gd68 TIL David Bowie said “In America especially, when I do ‘The Man Who Sold The World’ the amount of kids that come up afterwards and say, 'It’s cool you’re doing a Nirvana song.’ And I think, 'Fuck you, you little tosser!’”
X5lD TIL it’s a bad idea to use a banana for scale when taking pictures of a beehive, since the alarm pheromone to alert bees to defend their hive smells like bananas