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TIL that the rarest event ever recorded was the radioactive decay of xenon-124 (an isotope of the element xenon used in flash lamps and ion thrusters in spacecraft), which was detected by a dark matter detector

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Z8KK4 TIL, in 1969, police raided George Harrison's house and arrested him when they claimed to have found a large piece of hashish in one of Harrison’s shoes. Harrison proclaimed his innocence, saying, "I’m a tidy man. I keep my socks in the sock drawer and stash in the stash box. It’s not mine."
yQJ8l TIL that 'Passing the Buck' comes from using a buckhorn handled knife to designate the next dealer in a poker game; a player could decline the deal and 'pass the buck'
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