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TIL Sharon Osbourne was the manager of smashing pumpkins until 2000: she put out a public statement saying "unfortunately I must resign today due to medical reasons...Billy Corgan was making me sick"

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a8GrJ TIL that female Adélie penguins trade stones for sex during a shortage of stones. Extra-pair copulation often occurs at the male's nesting site, after which the female takes one or more stones. In contrast, when it occurs at the female's nesting site, the male doesn’t take a stone.
Lrn9 TIL Britain used the Australian outback as a nuclear testing ground, exploding seven Atomic Bombs at Maralinga in the south-west Australian outback.
6Ejr8 TIL: Beverly Hills Chihuahua made $149,292,488 at the box office; making it one of the most successful English language movies with a majority Hispanic cast.
VMQx4 TIL that the words Shit, Science, Ski and Schizophrenia (along with many more) all come from the same Proto-Indo-European root - *skey - which means "to split"
Egv0w TIL Snuffleupagus was a child of divorced parents according to an unaired episode of Sesame Street.