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TIL A BBC News sign langauge interpreter spent months embellishing the news with ridiculous details before she was sacked.

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6j68 TIL in 2011 a billionaire CEO’s girlfriend was found hanged from a balcony while naked, gagged with a tee shirt wrapped around her head and neck, both ankles and wrists bound, and tape residue on her legs. San Diego police ruled the death a suicide.
16ngD TIL of the North American Water and Power Alliance, a proposed plan to divert water from The Yukon in Alaska to Southern California, Texas, and the Great Lakes
ZpMrR TIL that ~10% of the revenue of the government of Tuvalu comes from royalties from 'tv' adresses, which is an abbreviation for "Tuvalu".
68OJ TIL Green Day payed to host a schools prom at a different location when the school board cancelled it because they didn’t want same sex couples at their prom
dD7j7 TIL that the native language of the volcanic island Manam Motu has no words for cardinal directions (North, East, West, South). Instead, it uses polar coördinates—with words meaning “towards the volcano”, ”towards the sea”, “clockwise around the volcano”, and “counterclockwise around the volcano”.