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TIL There are "penetration parties" which involve an all day event of many men, many in pairs or a circle, dedicated to safe cracking

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j6pBp TIL that when Dylan Thomas (the Welsh poet) died, his widow had his body shipped from New York to Wales. While they were under way, she discovered a group of sailors unwittingly using the coffin as a card table. She decided not to say anything as she thought her husband would have liked it.
0dkyM TIL that Mt. Washington in New Hampshire is considered the place with the "worst weather on planet earth" rivaling the Himalayas and polar regions.
xdN0 TIL a plane was grounded after a professor was mistook doing math and differential equations for designing a bomb.
oDN8 TIL A Chinese man’s ex-girlfriend and current girlfriend jumped off a bridge into a river to see who he would rescue. He rescued his current girlfriend.
9bZB TIL of Ken McElroy, the “town bully” of Skidmore, Missouri whose unsolved 1981 murder was witnessed by as many as 46 people