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TIL that Ozzy Osbourne once got so wasted before a meeting with the German head of CBS Europe, he left thinking he had ‘lightened the mood’ with a striptease. In reality, he performed a Nazi goose-step up and down the table before dipping his testicles in, then urinating in, the director’s wine.

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MJoW TIL more than 300 people died in a supermarket fire because the owners shut the doors in order to prevent people from fleeing with merchandise without paying for it.
m9eM TIL in 1980, a German reporter by the name of Jurgen Heinzpeter, exposed the atrocities of the South Korean government during the Gawngju Uprising. He snuck into Gwangju with the help of a local taxi driver and documented the killing of civilian protesters.
MejeA TIL that in German there are two verbs for eating, one exclusively for humans and one for animals. In fact, you can use the animal verb to imply (impolitely) that someone eats like an animal.
j6roX TIL that there is an ALS-Parkinson's-dementia overlap syndrome seen almost exclusively in Guam called lytico-bodig disease. It was first reported in 1904 and by the 1950s had become the leading cause of death on the island before largely disappearing. The cause remains unknown.
YwPW TIL some of the most powerful known earthquakes in the continental U.S. occurred in Missouri between December 1811 & February 1812. Multiple quakes occurred with a magnitude of 7.5 or greater shaking an area ten times larger than that affected by the magnitude 7.8 San Francisco earthquake of 1906