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TIL Chad Kroeger once paid a drum technician to stick his dick into an electric fan

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awwWb TIL a years-long feud between Nirvana and Guns N’ Roses ended after Kurt Cobain’s suicide, largely because GN’R bassist Duff McKagan was one of the last people to see Cobain alive. They happened to sit next to each other on a flight to Seattle and made friendly conversation about “going home.”
xVe7k TIL that It's illegal for supermarkets in France to waste food. Supermarkets must either compost it or donate unsold or nearly expired goods to charity.
Z85YQ TIL that it's actually illegal for companies like FedEx to ship "non-urgent" letters unless the customer pays at least six times the value of USPS postage.
Dy6Y TIL that a 2009 study at two North American universities concluded that Shania Twain’s face possesses the ‘golden ratio'—or perfect distances—between a woman’s eyes and mouth that determines whether she is thought to be beautiful
epl1g TIL When Benjamin Franklin returned to America after having spent nine years in Paris as an ambassador, he was short 100,000 pounds in congressional money. When questioned on this by a member of Congress Franklin waved the question away and the matter was never brought up again.