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8av48 TIL of "chicken shit bingo", a weekly event at the Little Longhorn Saloon in Austin Texas. Participants purchase a ticket which corresponds to a random number on the table. If the chicken poops on your number you win a cash prize.
PYXow TIL that many historical sailors decided not knowing how to swim beneficial, if they fell overboard it would be a swifter death than if they knew how to swim.
l7BOK TIL Amelia Earhart may have been eaten by crabs.
grorX TIL Machiavelli hated the clergy. Bored at work at a monastery, he amused himself by asking his boss to send him fat envelops stuffed with paper and instruct messengers to run, just to mess with the priests and make them think there's something important going on that they're not privy to
dDmm9 TIL that Garth Brooks had a goth/soft-rock alter ego named Chris Gaines that was supposed to record 6 albums and star in his own murder mystery in 1999.