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TIL a Japanese snowboard champion became a porn star, and recently came back to won national championship in Japan after only 4 days of training, and is now prepping for next winter Olympics

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5oJr TIL “channel drift” is a term used to describe when a TV channel loses it’s original purpose. (The Learning Channel showing Here Comes Honey Boo Boo
p88OQ Can you park a horse in New York City? That is to say, simply, can a person riding a horse in the city stop, dismount, tie up their horse, and go run an errand? The answer is more complicated than we thought, leading to more questions. First question being, how hard is it to find out whether something is illegal or not? Answer: without paying an attorney, it's a pain in the ass.
loBrA TIL that before WWI Kaiser Wilhelm tried to impress Queen Wilhelmina of Holland by telling her "My guards are seven feet tall and yours are only shoulder-high to them." her reply was, "Quite true, Your Majesty, your guards are seven feet tall. But when we open our dikes, the water is ten feet deep!"
9oDp TIL in mid 2008, media outlets reported that Dr Pepper would offer a free can of Dr Pepper to everyone in the USA —excluding former Guns N’ Roses guitarists Buckethead and Slash— if the band released Chinese Democracy in 2008. They failed on their vow and were threatened litigation by Axl Rose.
1awR7 TIL flatfishes, originally used as evidence against Darwin’s theory of evolution, have come to be understood as incredible examples for the theory