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TIL: Benjamin Franklin inadvertently electrocuted himself while attempting to kill a Turkey.

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e0XZn TIL that the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkov, urinated on a tire of the bus that took her to the launch site. This remarkable woman was only 26 years old, a former textile factory worker, and was in space a full two decades before the first U.S. woman was.
v1xyx TIL Jason Mraz once was a pickle boy at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival, where he would offer to trade you his dill for a bill.
nWNY9 TIL African elephants can exchange information by emitting low-frequency sounds that travel dozens of miles under the ground on the savanna. The sound waves come from the animals' huge vocal cords, and distant elephants “hear” the signals with their highly sensitive feet.
OobD7 TIL the 9th monarch of Thailand was an accomplished jazz saxophonist
dPO8 TIL in 1986 a Kansas sheriff rented a camera and VCR from his local video store, filming a 90 minute sex tape with his wife. Upon returning the equipment, he inadvertently left the tape inside the VCR. Soon enough, his whole town had watched and passed around copies of “The Sheriff Rides Again”