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TIL that after more than 5,000 episodes and 22 seasons, the Jerry Springer Show is still airing on tv

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0dYML TIL Stephan Bonnar, one of the two most famous UFC Ultimate Fighters, didn’t die of a heart condition, but of a fentanyl overdose.
8nO8 TIL Japanese monks mummified themselves while still alive. The practice required the mummifying monk to eat only nuts, buds, and roots for at least three years. When death was near his disciples would put him into a box at the bottom of pit, pack charcoal around the box and bury their master alive.
drR8 TIL that pinball was banned in NYC as a gambling device until 1976, when Roger Sharpe testified by playing pinball in the courtroom while calling out precisely what he was going to shoot for and scoring - showing that it’s a game of skill and not chance.
lmXa TIL after Czech resistance assassinated brutal Nazi Reinhard Heydrich, the Czech town of Lidice was razed and nearly all of its citizens, pets and livestock were shot. In response to Hitler’s desire to wipe Lidice off the map, Venezuela, Brazil, Panama and Mexico renamed towns to Lidice.
dDZ8 TIL pumpkins are technically considered berries