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TIL of Len Koenecke, a pro baseball player who got drunk on a flight and picked a fight with the pilot. The pilot bashed him over the head with a fire extinguisher killing him.

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e0ZoE TIL that banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.
A56w TIL Pointing a laser at an airplane in the U.S. can get you up to 20 years in prison, and a quarter of a million dollars fine.
6998l TIL: Back in 1910, Citibank took over the national bank of Haiti, which besides being the sole commercial bank also served as the Haitian treasury and then in 1915 after both withholding Haitian funds and paying rebels to destabilize the country, the bank pressured the US Government to occupy Haiti
GprN TIL your fifth and smallest toe is called your Minimus.
b96O0 TIL the Romans had a god of poop: Sterquilinus. He was mentioned in a pilot episode of Beavis and Butthead, where his spirit rose from a port-a-potty crushed by a monster truck.