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TIL women in the early 1900’s would stab catcallers with their hatpins

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v1KKD TIL an episode of Mythbusters where the myth of a sugary cereal's box being more healthy than the cereal itself was was tested but never aired. This was due to the fact that the lab mice that were fed the cereal box wound up eating each other during filming.
yQmZe TIL the song Vincent by Don McLean was a particular favorite of the rapper and actor Tupac Shakur and was played to him in the hospital just before he died
XEVNE TIL Intermarche supermarkets in France offered a 70% discount on Nutella, bringing the price down from €4.50 to €1.40. This led to riots & violence in stores. One customer claimed 'They are like animals. A woman had her hair pulled, an elderly lady took a box on her head, another had a bloody hand.'
7B5M TIL Masanobu Sato, World Champion Masturbator, masturbated for 9 hours and 58 minutes without ejaculating during the annual “Masturbate-a-thon”.
WkOmA TIL France has 58 nuclear reactors, generating 71.6% of the country's total electricity, a larger percent than any other nation. France turned to nuclear in response to the 1973 oil crisis. The situation was summarized in a slogan, "In France, we do not have oil, but we have ideas."