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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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j6xWR TIL the reason nearly all TV and radio political ads in the United States include something like "I'm _ and I approve this message" is because an act from 2002 requires it
4X8Bg TIL of chimp Frodo who beat up Jane Goodall, fathered a baby with his own mother (and also ate a human baby)
BQnL TIL That an Irish man owns a house that is actually made from decommissioned Euro bills previously amounting to 1.4 Billion Euros.
aw84y Not really, but urine has been a faddish health drink for centuries nonetheless. Celts in the Iberian peninsula gargled it to whiten their teeth about 50 years before Christ; amaroli is a Sanskrit word that refers to urine therapy, which in ancient Ayurvedic practice meant imbibing urine in the morning, mid stream; Proverbs 5:15 is thought to be in support of the act ("Drink waters from thy own cistern, flowing water from thy own well"); and J.D. Salinger famously sipped his own, as did the former prime minister of India, Morarji Desai, who even appeared on 60 Minutes to defend his habit.Click here to launch a gallery about urine therapy.
OGlAe TIL in March of ‘62, during development for the B-58 Hustler, a black bear named Yogi became the first living being to survive a supersonic ejection.