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TIL Sinéad O’Connor's was a victim of the Catholic Church's Magdalene Laundries

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eryL TIL that the world record for keeping a pair of ferrets in your pants is 5 hours and 30 minutes
yEyV TIL A production engineer deleted the original recording of the third verse of “Stan” by Eminem. Eminem messed up on the last three lines, and the engineer accidentally re-recorded over the whole thing because he was high. When confronted by Eminem, his response was “My bad man…you wanna hit this?”
XDxQ TIL that a class of 8 - 10 year olds conceived of, executed and published a significant scientific paper on bee behavior that was the Editor’s choice in Science and the 2nd most downloaded paper on Biology Letters. It is written in “kid-speak” and its figures are colored with crayon.
woEO1 TIL: The AICPA (which is responsible for All CPAs in America), has a program known as the "Federal Key Person" for CPAs who know a Congressperson or a person who knows a Congressperson. They receive information from the AICPA when important matters arise, to privately inform their assigned target.
rNnM1 TIL about Nurkhon Yuldashkhojayeva, an Uzbek actress and one of the first Uzbek women to dance onstage without a burqa on. She became the victim of an honor killing in 1929.