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TIL Jerry Springer used to be the mayor of Cincinnati and resigned after being caught paying for sex with personal checks

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LkN9d TIL: The sound of a TIE Fighter from Star Wars is a combination of an elephant call with a car driving on wet pavement
gMn87 TIL Three men were arrested by NYPD for possession of Jolly Ranchers. The men successfully sued the NYPD for $33,000.
A1Kg TIL in 1994 a man named Tony Cicoria was struck by lightening while standing next to a public telephone, and resuscitated by a nurse who was waiting to use the phone. Not long after recovery he said his head became flooded with music. He bought a piano and is now a successful composer and performer.
a8vmZ TIL that during WWII, scientists were struggling to make enough penicillin to keep up with demand until they found a moldy cantaloupe in Peoria, IL that was producing penicillin at the highest rate they had yet seen.
QJE1d TIL Eminem set the Guiness World Record with “Rap God” for most words in a hit single. The song has a record breaking 1560 words in 6 minutes 4 seconds and averaging 4.28 words per second. One section of the song features 97 words in 15 seconds at 6.5 words per second.