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TIL The UK didn't have televised election debates until 2010.

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yAYJ TIL Mick Foley nearly died during a wrestling match in 1998’s Hell in a Cell when he & Undertaker went off script. He was knocked unconscious after being thrown from the top of the cell, got up from the stretcher, climbed back up, choke slammed through the cell, and then once again on a bed of tacks
DXMV TIL That Chris Kyle, the protagonist of American Sniper, claimed that he shot 30 looters in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
E1Wld TIL Apples do not reproduce true to type, meaning that the tree from the seed will produce apples that are almost certain to be different than the parent. Unless you pollinate the tree by hand, there is no way to know who the other parent is, considering bees could have used almost every other tree
GAV87 TIL: Arsenic was sold as a beauty product in the late 1800s, women would nibble on wafers or even wash with the poison, hoping to achieve an ideal complexion that was free of “freckles, black-heads, and pimples."
78BEx TIL After Mario Puzo won an Oscar for writing the screenplay for The Godfather, having had no prior experience writing screenplays, he bought a book on screenwriting. The book's instruction was basically "Study The Godfather"