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TIL a Wikipedia admin once deleted the main page. This resulted in a Wikipedia guidance essay, “Don’t delete the main page.”

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oB6pE TIL a child molester voluntarily castrated himself to get rid of his urges and be freed from prison
09M5 TIL The FBI will never interrogate you if the conversation is being recorded. (never talk to the FBI without a lawyer)
ep4Zn TIL: That many events in the life of Krusty The Clown parallel those of comedian Jerry Lewis, including his Jewish background, addiction to Percodan, hosting of telethons and appearance in an adaptation of The Jazz Singer.
XErgE TIL After the War of the Worlds broadcast a similar stunt was tried in a Ecuador. Once listeners realized it was a hoax they they surrounded the radio station and burned it down with around 100 people inside. Survivors leapt out of windows but 6-20 people died.
pZde TIL an Indian man named Jadav Payeng started planting trees on a barren sandbar at 17. He is now 47 and lives in his own 1360 acre forest which now houses rhinos, tigers, deers, apes and elephants.