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TIL the infamous shock video "2 Girls 1 Cup" was originally sold as a DVD titled "Hungry B*tches". The "vomit" in the movie was just food the actors had chewed and spit-out without swallowing, and film's director has stated in court that the supposed excrement they consume was just ice cream.

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WkkJd TIL In 1961 a B-52 bomber broke up in mid-air and dropped an armed nuclear bomb near the city of Goldsboro, NC. The bomb did not detonate but the recently declassified report said that "one simple, dynamo-technology, low voltage switch stood between the United States and a major catastrophe".
pNOb TIL that the crusades were preceeded by the “muslim conquest” jihads against italy, including the muslim conquest of Sicily in 827 and the Arab raid against Rome (846). 200 years before the first crusade even happened.
6EdnY TIL that New York City is built on an ancient mountain range so old that it has eroded away entirely. Skyscrapers stand where the bedrock is strongest but can't be built where it isn't. That means the tall buildings mark the spots where the mountains once stood.
gM6Wb TIL of Chad Varah—a priest who started the first suicide hotline in 1953 after the first funeral he conducted early in his career was for a 14-year-old girl who took her own life after having no one to talk to when her first period came and believed she’d contracted an STD.
J5Jm TIL More than 10,000 people die every year when calling 911 from a cellphone because dispatchers can’t get quick and accurate information on them