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TIL Hunter S. Thompson and Richard Nixon had a conversation about football for over an hour in Nixon’s car, after which Thompson almost accidentally blew up Nixon’s plane with a cigarette

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QNQPd Til a boy in Pakistan cut his own hand when an imam asked 'Who among the crowd had stopped praying?'He misheard the question and raised his hand by mistake, But the crowd accused him of Blasphemy. So he went to his house, cut off his hand, put it on a plate, and gave it to the cleric.
WkZ8B TIL in 1922 Raymond DeWalt invented the Radial Arm Saw, with the first saw blade driven directly by a motor. Naming it the "Wonder-Worker," he then started the DeWalt company which still exists today. Once a versatile staple of home workshops, the Radial Arm Saw is in extremely limited use today.
0W1R TIL that tea is the second most consumed beverage in the world, after water, with more consumed than coffee, soft drinks and alcohol combined.
16p7 TIL there is a subgenre of rap called ‘Chap Hop’ that is essentially gentlemenly rapping
7r7or TIL: The 2019 show "Swamp Thing" was cancelled not long after it's 1st episode aired due to WarnerMedia not getting a tax credit from where it was filmed. Due to a paperwork error, North Carolina couldn't deliver a $40 million tax rebate which would have paid for half the production of season one.