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TIL Jeremy Clarkson punched Piers Morgan in the face.

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4Xv4N TIL scientists searching for an explanation for an unusually cool area of sky instead discovered a 'supervoid'; an empty spherical blob 1.8 billion light years across that is the largest object in the known universe. An estimated 10,000 galaxies were “missing” from the part of the sky it sits in.
RB4 TIL that Dr. Ruth, America’s leading sex psychologist, is a trained sniper.
6Ee5Y TIL on October 13, 2016, a man high on LSD, Michael Orchard from Halfmoon, NY, drove through his neighbours' fence, broke their glass door and stole their dog, hallucinating that the neighbours' house was burning and he was saving the canine. He then peacefully handed the dog to police officers.
wbb8 TIL No one really knows where strawberries got their name
OGBZR TIL about Francis Henning, who made upwards of half a million counterfeit nickels. Called: Henning Nickels, many were later recovered, melted down, and made into actual nickels by the US Mint. Despite remaining illegal to own, they are a numismatic collector's item, some being relatively valuable.