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TIL that Chef from South Park had a #1 hit in the U.K with “Chocolate Salty Balls” in 1999

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GYyL4 TIL That, during the War of the Currents, Thomas Edison became so desperate to convince people that Tesla's current was more harmful than his own, that he began paying young boys 25 cents per stray dog they brought him, so he could publicly electrocute them with Tesla's current to prove his point.
rWG4 TIL that there’s a small college in Oregon with its own nuclear reactor, run by undergraduate students. It has more female reactor operators than all the other research reactors in the world …combined.
69GMm TIL when Australia first joined Usenet in 1983, data was stored on tape and physically sent via air mail to the University of Sydney for dissemination. This was cheaper than an international data link then.
696vW TIL that Amanda Knox, while imprisoned, was falsely told she had HIV. This led her to list her sexual partners, which then leaked to the media. This incident is seen as a possible strategy by authorities to probe her personal life for a possible accomplice in the Meredith Kercher murder case.
PYNYg TIL There is an airport in germany which is under construction since 2006. Before that, planning alone took over 15 years. It was supposed to open in 2011.