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TIL Tim Horton died after crashing his car driving drunk and high

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pYwM4 TIL Earwax is produced by the ear to clean and protect itself. It's secreted by glands in the skin that line the outer half of your ear canals. The wax and tiny hairs in these passages trap dust and other foreign particles that could damage deeper structures, such as your eardrum
w10Y TIL Lurleen Wallace, who would become governor of Alabama, was diagnosed with cancer in 1961 but neither her doctor nor her husband Governor George Wallace bothered to let her know so she went without treatment for FOUR YEARS. The cancer killed her only 15 months into her term.
44Mw TIL that in 2000, Nintendo gave away free sports gloves to the owners of the Original Mario Party because so many players were cutting open their palms on the rotating joystick mini-games.
P1LDO TIL that when on shore leave in Singapore, members of the Royal Australian Navy used to get atop a public toilet building in Bugis and perform “The Dance of the Flaming Arseholes”
ANwA4 TIL A man who called his ex-girlfriend 1,011 times in a few weeks, hired two companies to put up missing posters of the woman around Vancouver and created fake social media accounts for her received a suspended sentence and three years’ probation for criminal harassment