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TIL A whale carcass exploded on a beach in Florence, Oregon in 1970. It had been packed with dynamite in an effort to dispose of it.

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nLRY TIL: Layne Staley of Alice in Chains weighed only 86 pounds (36 kg) when he died from a drug overdose.
7rj7X TIL in 2002 an Internet geolocation service began using 38,-97, located in Kansas, as the default coordinates for all IPs it was unable to find. This led to a rural farm getting harassed by incompetent law enforcement investigators, doxxers, and Internet crackpots.
Jr1V TIL in 1998, a Georgia high school student was suspended from school after wearing a Pepsi t-shirt on Coke Day. Upon hearing the news, a Pepsi spokesperson said, “Without knowing all the details, it sounds like (he’s) obviously a trendsetter with impeccable taste in clothes.”
XrDP TIL Samsung is also a full time weapons manufacturer.
d89P8 TIL men with "madonna whore complex" are only sexual attracted to slutty women (whores) but cannot love such a woman. They can love a chaste partner (a madonna) but not be sexually attracted to them.