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TIL that a Texas lawyer killed himself because Dateline NBC waited outside his home to catch him in their child predator sting

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M5pV TIL A tradition of High Wycombe, UK, involves its Mayor being weighed annually in public on a specially erected scale, and their weight compared with the previous year. If it has increased, it means they have been indulging in too much good living at taxpayers’ expense, and the crowd jeers and boos
Yp71G TIL that a river in New Zealand has been given legal status as a living entity and possesses the same rights as a human being.
5YZZk TIL about “The Miracle Ship” in World War 2. Weeks after surviving Pearl Harbor, a Japanese torpedo blew it’s bow off. Presumed dead by the US, the few survivors built a bow out of bamboo. Never designed to fight, it won 60 battle stars and was the 4th most decorated battle ship in US History.
ADJVB TIL that, many years after chewing gum had been around, in 1906, the first BUBBLE gum ever sold was called Bilbber-Blubber
E1gAx TIL that 19-yo Tom Lyle Williams created the mascara "Maybelline" in 1915 when his sister Maybel used a mixture of VaseLINE and coaldust to darken her eyelashes after a mishap.