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TIL the original Oxford English Dictionary was laregly written by a psychiatric patient in hospital at the time who also chopped his own penis off (autopeotomy)

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o01W TIL that Uluru is taller than both the Eiffel Tower and the Chrysler Building
0wGJN TIL that the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team refused to play in South Africa for 10 years due to their forced exclusion of Maori players. This ended in 1970 when South Africa deemed Maori players "honourary whites" and allowed them to play
vPPZ7 TIL that Mount Everest was named under the surname of George Everest, who has nothing to do with its discovery.
oBLQA TIL O.J. Simpson was unanimously found guilty in civil court trial in 1997. The jury ruled against Simpson on each of the eight technical questions of liability it was asked to consider, questions that Simpson had avoided to answer at his first trial in criminal court.
MP1m TIL that a man waited 20 hours to buy pot legally in WA. The news filmed the sale and the man lost his job.