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TIL that the ‘heroic,’ 11-year-old girl who supposedly shot and killed a cougar stalking her younger brother last year comes from a family of convicted poachers

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bYRZ TIL ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are on its way there
XkNX TIL Larry King crashed into John F. Kennedy’s car in 1958. JFK said he’d forget the whole thing if King promised to vote for him when he ran for president.
N7P0N TIL in the late 80s when Tipper Gore led Senate hearings to censor music lyrics against metal and rap bands, the PMRC star speaker was her favorite singer, John Denver. However, Denver stated he was against censorship, ruining their chances to win the legal battle.
KYEk9 TIL of Alcohol Flush Syndrome - facial flushing, nausea, and fast heart rates from drinking alcohol. It is commonly called "Asian Flush" because 30-50% of East Asians lack the enzyme needed to metabolize alcohol
woxKo TIL that Austria, Sweden, Finland, Ireland, and Switzerland were technically "third world countries", because they were not officially aligned with NATO (first world) or the Warsaw Pact (second world) during the Cold War. The term does not actually have anything to do with quality of life.