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TIL Richard Dawkins coined the term "meme".
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TIL in 2012, the FDA recorded 5 cases of people being burned after their sunscreen caught on fire. One instance happened after a person lit a cigarette, another came near a candle, and one near a grill. One cause of this was a sunscreen's defective spray valve which dispensed more than was typical.
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TIL a Colombian footballer was murdered after scoring an own goal, knocking Colombia out of the 1994 FIFA World Cup. The next day, a BBC commentator for another match remarked, “the Argentine defender warrants shooting for a mistake like that”.
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TIL the Led Zeppelin song “Gallows Pole” is a version of a centuries-old folk song. Traditionally the main character bribes the executioner to let them go. In the Zeppelin version the executioner takes the money but carries through with the execution.
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TIL scientists once recruited theater students to drunkenly stumble into bars, to test whether bartenders over-serve patrons. They found that bartenders were more likely to over-serve drunk women than men.
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TIL that footage from an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm was used as evidence to exonerate a man who was accused of murder.