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TIL during her 2007 Emmys acceptance speech, Sally Field said, “if the mothers ruled the world, there would be no wars in the first place,” but was censored on American TV - international viewers heard the whole quote.

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GAZWE TIL a book club in California spent 28 years reading Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, beginning in 1995 and finishing in October 2023. At first the club read two pages per month, however it eventually slowed to just one page per month. In November, the group started the book again.
v7Ej TIL of a 1982 World Cup incident where Kuwait’s Sheikh stormed onto the field from the stands and threatened to pull his players unless a goal he perceived to be unfair was reversed. The referee then disallowed the goal, marking the only time a World Cup decision was vetoed by a member of the crowd.
XEWl6 TIL - Not only do Chimpanzees eat a lot more meat than originally thought, but they hunt in organized groups with strategy to eat monkeys half their size. Spears are used. They eat so much meat that they threaten to wipe out entire populations. Smashing open a tortoise for meat is also on the menu.
GMW7 TIL that Osama Bin Laden’s relatives own a massive construction business. The company is not currently allowed to take on new contracts because of a massive crane collapse that killed 118 on September 11, 2015.
v1kWK TIL the vagina loquens, or "talking vagina", is a significant tradition in literature and art, dating back to the ancient folklore motif of the "talking cunt".