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TIL of Australian Senator Bill Heffernan, who in 2014 felt that the new security arrangements at Parliament House were inadequate. To protest this, he smuggled in a fake pipe bomb and presented it at a Senate hearing as proof that the building was "no longer secure".

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691VW TIL the song "A Real Hero" by College was written for Sully Sullenberger and his life-saving heroics in the "Miracle on the Hudson" where he saved all 155 souls on his flight after losing power in both engines from a bird-strike soon after takeoff.
8amAK TIL Dion DiMucci recorded his song "Runaround Sue" with black musicians. In the music video, the black musicians were replaced by white actors playing musicians so that it can be played in the South at that time.
6l6l TIL that the table knife has a rounded tip because in 1669, Louis XIV decreed that all pointed knives be dulled down to reduce violence in Court and the streets.
rnjM TIL of the Skoptsy sect, whose members underwent removal of sexual organs due to their belief that they represented the forbidden fruit and original sin
JwOV TIL the “I should buy a boat” cat is originally from Björk’s music video “Triumph Of A Heart”