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TIL a Florida computer repair business incidentally named “CP Distributor” paid $240 for an ad in an coupon book featuring the infamous pedophile meme character “Pedobear.”

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bAdj TIL in 2009 CD Singles sales ‘officially’ died when Florence and the Machine charted at number 16 in the UK after selling a whopping 64 physical copies of their single
wQZ6 TIL During the “Red Terror” of 1918, Communist secret police in Orel “poured water on naked prisoners bound in the winter streets until they became living ice statues.” In Ukraine, they “rolled people around in barrels studded internally with nails.” Upwards of 1 million people died.
grOrW TIL of a study published in the British Medical Journal in 2018 concluding that parachutes does not reduce risk of death or major injury when jumping from an aircraft. However, participants only jumped from a stationary aircraft on the ground. The trial is meant as a humorous commentary on RCTs.
pYnD4 TIL kinect got into guiness world record as fastest selling accessory
YpDpP TIL as of April 2018, Swaziland has been renamed as Eswatini, one of the reasons behind the King's decision to rename the country was that "...abroad, people refer to us as Switzerland."