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TIL Nigeria has suffered a cumulative oil spill equivalent to the Exxon-Valdez. Every year. For the past 50 years.

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m1Exv TIL while recording their 2003 “self-titled” album, blink-182 had continuous pay-per-view porn playing and a garage to “smoke hella weed”
epkng TIL Nelson Rockefeller, former Vice President of the United States and heir to the Rockefeller family fortune, died of a heart attack rumored to be caused by an orgasm during intercourse with his secretary. When he died the New York Times quipped: "Nelson thought he was coming, but he was going".
09Vj TIL Robert Downey Jr. pissed in jars and left them lying around the set of “Zodiac” to protest not having enough time to go to his trailer and relax.
xVg67 TIL there is already an avenue for priests to marry in the Catholic Church: They have to be married before they enter the priesthood. This avenue is only available to Eastern Catholics though.
kJWQE TiL that while primary endosymbiosis, which originated the plastids and the mitochondria, happened only once, secondary endosymbiosis happened several types, giving rise to many different, unrelated groups of algae that got their plastids by engulfing other eukaryotes that had engulfed bacteria!