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TIL that rice thrown at weddings poses absolutely no danger to birds.

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69bLJ TIL that in 1971, three off-duty teenage British soldiers were lured from a Belfast pub and executed by the IRA. The outrage led to protests, a political crisis, and the UK raising the army deployment age to 18.
8Mv4 TIL that at the age of 75 Paul Newman burned his tuxedo to make sure he would never attend an awards show again
pPkZ TIL during World War II, a U.S. soldier was ambushed by 5 Japanese tanks. He single-handedly destroyed all 5 and was eventually awarded the Medal of Honor.
16DV TIL - the guy who used to hold up the John 3:16 sign at football games is in prison for life
j6An TIL Comedy Central received more than 2,000 angry e-mail complaints when the South Park creators pranked fans with the episode “Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus” instead of concluding the season 1 cliffhanger about the identity of Cartman’s father