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TIL a West Virginia man was charged with Battery for farting repeatedly and fanning the gas at police officers. Charges were eventually dropped.

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lojPr TIL Paul McCartney stopped off at a local pub in Harrold, Bedfordshire, and performed "Hey Jude" on June 30 1968, before he'd even showed it to the other Beatles
W7RPL TIL The Nazis built a rocket-powered plane: The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet. To date, it remains the only operational rocket-powered fighter plane in world history. It was also the first plane of any type to exceed 1000 km/hr in level flight.
nWj5b TIL young horseshoe crabs use their flap shaped gills called book gills to paddle through the water.
jNAdN TIL there are no recorded fatal attacks of wild Orcas on humans. In 2005 a 12 yr old boy in AK was bumped by a killer whale while splashing in 4 ft of water. The boy was likely mistaken for a seal and the bump was an aborted attack once the whale realized the mistake
mxEey TIL a camera losded with 8mm film was discovered in a farmer’s field in Michigan. The film depicted a man lying in the street in a pool of blood. The FBI soon discovered the footage had been intended for use in a music video… and the corpse” was none other than NIN founder Trent Reznor.