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TIL in 2010 during Netherlands' Remembrance Day ceremony a man screamed so loud into crowd of 20,000 people it caused a panic stampede injuring 87.

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8ar8V TIL Buzz Aldrin peed in his pants (space suit) on the moon, saying it was “lonely as hell” up there.
l7BQN TIL A term ‘tittytainment’ stating a global trap that 80% of population will live in a numb ‘happy life’ with various entertainments, frustrated by the other 20% who actually keep the economy running.
rmBw TIL Starship Troopers is the first sci-fi novel on the reading lists of three of the five US military branches
NXjB6 TIL that measles is descended from rinderpest, a cattle disease eradicated by humans. A single outbreak in Africa from 1982–1984 destroyed $2 billion dollars in value, while the price of eliminating rinderpest globally was $5 billion.
0wA5v TIL that Eminem was sued by his grade school bully for defamation in the song “Brain Damage.” However the judge ruled in Eminem’s favor with a 10 stanza footnote rap that ended with “It is therefore this court’s ultimate position, that Eminem is entitled to summary disposition.”