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TIL that Ministry's Al Jourgensen shoved mini carrots up his backside and chased the members of Metallica around with them after Metallica barged into his dressing room and drank his beer. At Lollapalooza '92, he angrily stripped naked and humped Ice Cube on stage after Cube ALSO stole his beer.

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rRxgM TIL of leblouh, the practice of force-feeding young girls, in African countries where obesity is regarded as desirable. Older women called "fatteners" force the girls to consume enormous quantities of food and liquid, inflicting pain on them if they do not eat and drink.
vw7R TIL a New York man had his home taken from him, his life threatened by a judge and then ended up mysteriously dead from a head injury shortly after compiling the evidence of this…
dDE58 TIL in 1965, Pastor Shuttlesworth was arrested for leading a march in Birmingham. The Supreme Court overturned the ruling, saying the law was so broad that a person "may stand on a sidewalk only at the whim of any officer of that city."
P1X4Z TIL of a cricket match, which was played under timeless rules, that was played between South Africa and England, was abandoned as a draw because the English team had to leave to catch their boat home
wDlJ TIL R. Budd Dwyer, from the infamous suicide on tv video, committed suicide after claiming he had been framed and was to be convicted for taking bribes. After his suicide and further investigation, Wiliam T. Smith, who testimony was largely used for Dwyer’s conviction, admitted to lying under oath.