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TIL Frank Zappa made a quilt composed entirely of panties that were thrown on stage. He did not wash them first.

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d8mw7 TIL that the widespread myth that HIV was created by the USA government was originally spread as a disinformation campaign by the KGB, in an operation called Infektion
0dYv TIL that Fred Phelps, the head of the Westboro Baptist Church quoted an article from The Onion as proof that homosexuals were actively trying to “recruit” others.
a849y TIL that a linguistic's research led by Seymour (2003) shows that, on average, English-native learners take 2 more years to learn to read (decode) the same words than groups of learners in another country learning to read in their language, say, Finnish, which has an easier & more systematic system.
xVVgb TIL of Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn, a baseball pitcher and Hall of Famer who, in 1886, became the first person to be captured on camera giving the middle finger
6EYvw TIL that a hitchhiking robot, named HitchBOT, (who successfully hitchhiked across Canada, the Netherlands, and Germany) was ”murdered” in Philly; shortly after beginning its journey in the USA.