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TIL that the song Chocolate Salty Balls from South Park reached No. 1 on the UK Singles Charts

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aAZN TIL that Marilyn Manson did a cover of Suicide Is Painless, the theme song to the TV show MAS*H, and said the song was “more depressing and offensive than anything I’ve written.”
6EwXl TIL that in Australia, from late August to late October(during their mating season), Magpies attack anything, including dogs and cats, that gets close to their territory/nest. It is known as “Magpie Swooping Season”
4XgQo TIL the EU banned methanol in windshield washer fluid because alcoholics were drinking windshield washer fluid and dying.
4kOmw TIL in 1800’s New York City, pigs roamed freely and ate trash in the streets. When city government attempted to ban them in 1821, pig owners refused and rioted, causing the government to suspend their efforts. Over the next 28 years, owners continued to riot anytime the city tried to ban pigs.
ANWm4 TIL an originator of the lobotomy procedure, António Egas Moniz, received the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1949. Since then the Nobel Foundation has not rescinded the award, and in fact there is still an article active from the foundation defending the award.