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TIL a lake in India catches fire because it’s so polluted.

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WkwnN TIL Amway, the infamously successful MLM company, its Chinese ‘sale reps’ were so toxic that its name in Chinese, AN LI, has entered the vernacular to mean to “promote heavily” or to “be brainwashed.”
ADwJl TIL Every Easter in the Czech Republic boys get willow branches, braid them together into whips and decorate them with ribbons to whip girls with for luck and fertility. The word for this whip in Czech is pomlázka, which has also become the name of the tradition itself.
4kpB5 TIL John B. Stetson invented the cowboy hat after moving out West to treat his tuberculosis.
lBL1 TIL that when Keith Moon collapsed mid-concert, a 19 year old kid climbed on stage and played drums for The Who.
yrAX TIL that in our efforts to make playgrounds safer for children, we are actually stunting their development