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TIL that in 2017, a truck carrying 7,500 pounds of slime eels overturned on Oregon's Highway 101, causing a massive slime spill, a multiple-car pile-up, and traffic.

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9YG0M TIL "Buffalo Gals" [The song sung by Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed in the movie "It's a Wonderful Life"] was written about the prostitutes of Canal St. in Buffalo N.Y., the Wickedest Street in the World with its “ladies “of the fancy ways.”"
GeRj TIL a guy implied he was going to build a 480 ft skyscraper but labeled all the plans as 480". Then he had it built 40’ tall as per the plans, pocketed the investment money and won in court because he didn’t technically defraud anyone.
dpmK TIL Argentina is one of the whitest counties in the world with a white population of 97%.
8a0AP TIL: Grand Theft Auto V is the highest grossing media title of all time. The game made more money than any movie, album, or video game. It made twice as much money as the highest grossing film of all time.
ob5r TIL George Clinton doesn’t know who played guitar for one of Funkadelic’s greatest guitar solos, “Get Off Your Ass and Jam” (1975). The mystery guitarist was a white heroin addict that asked to sit in and was paid $50.