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TIL that a small city in Canada has been celebrating Wrestling Day on January 2nd, every year since 1959, where all the businesses are closed so that people can wrestle with their hangovers for an extra day after New Year’s Eve.

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epnZE TIL that the video for Weird Al's "Smells like Nirvana" was shot in the same sound stage as the clip for Smells like teen spirit and also used most of the extras from the original, including the janitor that's featured in various scenes.
4vMg TIL Bulletproof & Fireproof Houses can be made from used Plastic Bottles
50DP TIL There was a contest in 2003 to find which building in the world was the most penis-shaped.
neopo TIL 95% of individuals in the witness protection program are criminals, but only 10% of these people re-offend. Ex-prisoners have a recidivism rate of 65%+
e4XJ TIL the original Oxford English Dictionary was laregly written by a psychiatric patient in hospital at the time who also chopped his own penis off (autopeotomy)