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TIL The philosopher Aristotle wrote in his Poetics (c. 335 BC) that comedy is a representation of inferior people, not indeed in the full sense of the word bad, but the laughable is a species of the base or ugly. It consists in some blunder or ugliness that does not cause pain or disaster

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MeKga TIL of Action park, a New Jersey theme park that was known to have so many accidents in the 1980s, 5-10 victims on the busiest days, that park authority bought the nearby town of Vernon extra ambulances to keep up with the number of injured. At least 6 people died there.
KxQG TIL that our ancestors lived along with 3 other branches of humanoid races. One of them still unknown.
j6RkE TIL that water is harvested from dense fog with nets
jNBjR TIL, at her request, Elizabeth Taylor's funeral was delayed 15 minutes. So people would be able to say about her, "She was even late for her own funeral".
D1KED TIL that famed child star Shirley Temple served as the US ambassador to both Czechoslovakia and Ghana