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TIL Sloth from the goonies did a playgirl centrefold

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A9K4 TIL less than a month after the first traffic light went operational, it exploded and killed the unfortunate traffic cop who was operating it.
p8d0A TIL about the Finnish term "kalsarikänni" which translates to “drinking at home, alone, in your underwear”
WknL8 TIL Samuel L Jackson stuttered as a kid and still uses “motherf*cker” to get through a speech block
mxlYR TIL that a “fossil word” is a word that is no longer used in general speech but remains in use because it is part of an idiom. For example, amok as in “run amok”, or turpitude as in “moral turpitude”. There are many other examples.
JYm7l TIL the Beatles LP "Yesterday and Today" originally featured a cover depicting the band laughing while covered in mutilated and decapitated baby dolls. The cover was intended as a Vietnam protest, with Lennon saying "If the public can accept something as cruel as the war, they can accept this cover"