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TIL there are terrestrial leeches in the jungles of Asia!

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RjZ4 TIL In 1960 a terrorist armed with a bomb tried to hijack Trans Australia Flight 408. The co-pilot punched him in the face and ripped the wires from the bomb saving all 49 passengers.
0d0oy TIL New Order's synth-pop classic 'Bizarre Love Triangle' slowly evolved over time as the band played it live, adding riffs and expanding the lyrics, until it took its final form. The song had several working titles and the official title may, or may not, have anything to do with the lyrics
R7JN6 TIL about the Southern Bread Riots. Mostly women, protesting huge surges in food costs during the Civil War, rioted in Richmond, VA with chants of "bread or blood!" Food prices had soared to prices ten times higher than normal in many instances. Among the items stolen was 500 lbs of bacon.
b91Y4 TIL that A Fistful of Dollars (Clint Eastwood spaghetti Western) was a remake of the Japanese samurai film Yojimbo (Toshiro Mifune)
E1Djo TIL of Narcotizing Dysfunction. A theory where you obsessively follow the news until it tricks your brain that you are doing something about it, when in reality you are doing shit.