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TIL that in 2011 a man hid in a tank of raw sewage at a yoga festival to watch women going to the bathroom. When someone spotted him he fled, covered in feces.

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7DyO TIL that in 2008, Daniel Day-Lewis knelt down on stage for Hellen Mirren to “knight” him with his Oscar for “There Will Be Blood” claiming - “That’s the closest I’ll ever coming to getting a knighthood”. Lewis was bestowed Knighthood 6 years later for his contribution to the theatre and cinema.
WkXXX TIL Kenwood Limited (red K) and Kenwood Electronics/Corporation (red dot on W) are to different companies who make different products
J1nLm TIL the belief that the two disasters involving the De Havilland Comet were caused by square passenger windows is a myth. The two planes involved actually used rectangular windows with rounded edges; and the "square windows" is actually the square cut-out for the ADF Antenna above the cockpit.
EgkEp TIL in 2002, two men were indicted for pay phone fraud and accused of leasing 24 pay phone lines from Pacific Bell, routing 23 of the lines to an empty office, and then hooking the lines up to an auto-dialer which called over a million 1-800 numbers whereupon each call could earn about 24 cents.
bYv9 TIL In Ancient Ireland, subjects would routinely suck on their king’s nipples to demonstrate their submission.