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TIL Swedish eggs are guaranteed salmonella free

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4k6jw TIL that in 1952, in order to see who would win the main role in a film called “Viva Zapata!”, actors Marlon Brando and Anthony Quinn held a “pissing contest” in which the person who’d piss the furthest over the Rio Grande in Mexico would win the role. Marlon Brando was the champion.
0EWR TIL in 1995 a man deposited a junk mail cheque for $95,093.35, and it cashed. The bank took too long to realise and the money was now legally his.
6gbl TIL that Israel’s nuclear doctrine is to nuke the entire world, even neutral states, if it faces a nuclear attack
7DAM TIL that US Marines murdered 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians in response to an IED that killed a Marine in Haditha, Iraq. The Marine Corps reported that 15 civilians were killed by the IED, and 8 ‘insurgents’ were killed in response. Evidence showed this report to be false.
nWnZ9 TIL Otávio Jordão da Silva Cantanhede, a 20-year-old Brazilian amateur football referee,was lynched, beheaded and quartered by football spectators after he stabbed a player to death in a match he officiated on 30 June 2013