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TIL that the theme tune for the show Barney Miller inspired the legendary bassist Cliff Burton to take up the bass guitar

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ojkR TIL A Swedish woman filed a police complaint for harassment when a man she rejected farted before leaving her home. Police dismissed the case and said: “It’s impossible to prove that he wanted to pass particularly smelly wind on purpose.”
Z85pv TIL that doves and pigeons are the same bird. In English, the smaller species tend to be called "dove" and the larger ones "pigeon". The distinction is not consistent, and does not exist in most other languages.
x64K1 TIL Christine Sinclair is the all-time leading international goalscorer in both men’s and women’s soccer with 190 goals and 331 caps
5V7rR TIL that on his deathbed, Aldous Huxley asked his wife to inject him with 100 micrograms of LSD
kJOde TIL there are at least 10 other men who left genetic legacies that rival Ghengis Khan's, and we only know the name of one of them.