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TIL That England has scorpions.

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QMQ9 TIL that the only Soviet citizens taken hostage during the Lebanese civil war were freed unharmed after the KGB kidnapped and castrated a close relative of a prominent Hezbollah leader and mailed him the parts.
7AdX TIL for their 2011 tour, The Foo Fighters submitted their tour rider, or performance agreements, as a 50 page coloring book complete with a word search and maze.
7raox TIL Bob Propst inventor of the office cubicle regretted it and calls it monolithic insanity.
4k6R6 TIL In December 2016, a right-to-life lawsuit against actress Sofia Vergara was initiated in Louisiana with Vergara's frozen embryos as plaintiffs. The embryos were named "Emma" and "Isabella" in the lawsuit, and their "trustee" was listed as James Charbonnet, a New Orleans resident (zero relation).
b6PwQ TIL that when scientists transferred the gut microbiome of a schizophrenic human into mice, the mice started exhibiting schizophrenic-like behaviours.