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TIL in 2007, the Israeli Ambassador to El Salvador was recalled after being found outside the Embassy drunk, hands tied, wearing only a corset bondage gear, and with a cucumber inserted into his rectum. The police only discovered his identity after removing the ball gag from his mouth.

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8aEM4 TIL that in 2010, a group of Weight Watchers members gathered to see how much weight they had lost, only for the floor to collapse under their combined weight.
kOxQE TIL that Dock Ellis threw a no hitter while on LSD
m1KOO TIL in 1972 a meteor grazed the earth atmosphere and in doing so changes its trajectory, scientist predicted the meteor would come back to earth in 1997 but never did, so the object's trajectory and position remains unknown.
e0JAD TIL Robin Williams was instrumental in the early success of Audible as an investor and creator of the first weekly program
eRdE TIL that Isaac Newton predicted that the world would end around 2060. He wrote this in a letter in 1704 after studying different religious texts. He also “wrote more about theology and alchemy than science and math combined.”