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TIL that a couple who was having sex in a SkyDome (now know as Rogers Center) hotel room was televised on the scoreboard Jumbotron during a baseball game.

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94eG TIL Cicada 3301 is an anonymous organization that on three occasions has posted a set of complex puzzles to recruit capable cryptanalysts from the public. It has been called “the most elaborate and mysterious puzzle of the internet age”.
6Ev4Z TIL Platypus venom causes excruciating pain that can last for months on end, which cannot be relieved with conventional painkillers. Not even morphine works against it. The venom causes victims to become nauseated, suffer from cold sweats, and can even cause muscles to waste away.
MB4B TIL that livestock farming generates over 18% of the planet’s greenhouse gas emissions, where as all the world’s cars, trains, planes and boats account for a combined 13%.
8ePQG TIL $100 bills made up 80% of all US currency
kOJrW TIL people who speak languages that do not have a future verb tense are better at self regulation because they don't see "me" and "future me" as separate entities.