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TIL that Polish coffin company, Lindner, has had a "sexy" coffin calendar since 2010 [NSFW]

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lolLA TIL Domino’s discontinued using the Noid as their mascot because a mentally ill man named Kenneth Lamar Noid thought the ads were a personal attack on him. In retaliation, he took two Domino’s employees hostage, demanded $100,000, a special-made pizza, and a salad. He later killed himself in 1995.
x6jBB TIL Australia bans instagram users from seeing how many likes they get
BgVXx TIL that lots of kids are named Bluey. It was the 9,217 most popular baby girl name and 8,212 most popular baby boy name in 2023. It was also a somewhat popular name before the kids tv show Bluey began production in 2018.
yVkWw TIL In October 1809 Friedrich Staps attempted to assassinate Napoleon but was captured. Napoleon himself interrogated the would be assassin. On the possibility of being pardoned Staps said, ‘I would notwithstanding seize the first opportunity of taking your life.’ and he was executed on the 17th.
wLBpY TIL Victorians knowingly poisoned their food resulting in half a million Children dying of Tuberculosis from milk that was “purified” with alkali.