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TIL in the year 2000 American Target Shooter Josh Lakatos decided to illegally stay in the Olympic Village and turned an unsupervised building into a playground for sex orgies.

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X0V7X TIL vocal fry is seen as a speech affectation in English, but in some languages, it changes the meanings of words. In Jalapa Mazatec: já (normal voice) means "tree" whereas já̤ (breathy voice) means “he wears” and já̰ (with vocal fry) means “he carries”
rRmmM TIL that all polar bears are Irish because they are all descendants of Irish brown bears that lived in the last ice age.
vPXw4 TIL that during Billy Idol’s cover version of Mony Mony, fans chant "Hey, motherfcker… get laid get fcked!", which led to the song being banned at high school dances across America
W7964 TIL that Beauty Sleep is a real thing, according to doctors. A survey shows that 42% of rested individuals enhanced their Beauty.
GYk5 TIL that the Iranian Nuclear Program really got off the ground in 1976 when Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld convince President Ford to sell Plutonium to Iran.