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Today I learned that some ice fishermen netted South Dakota’s biggest ever drug bust.

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VMZD4 TIL in 1998 Two set of Family, a Christian from Siberia Russia and the other a Muslim Tajikistan native, got their 1st born daughters accidentally swapped at birth. The mistake was discovered 12 yrs later. The divorced Russian couple went thru DNA test for the settlement of alimony.
PlyO TIL McDaniel College offers a class that breaks down South Park episodes and looks at the real world social issues Matt and Trey are portraying
KOX74 TIL that heavy metal band Black Sabbath started as a blues band called Earth, but changed their name after seeing the Boris Karloff horror film "Black Sabbath". They liked "that people paid money to be frightened".
MekRm TIL Ancient Pomeranians were as annoying as modern. The Melitan dog resembling the modern day Pomeranian was described by most contemporaries including Great Rhetorician Lucian as “annoying and yappy; loved by its owner, despised by everyone else”
ywyp TIL that cats have a non-lethal terminal velocity, so they can survive falls from very large heights