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TIL a man was arrested for not showing his I.D. to police when comedian Lenny Bruce was arrested for obscenity during a performance in L.A. They rode in the same cop car together. That man, was young George Carlin.

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aw84y Not really, but urine has been a faddish health drink for centuries nonetheless. Celts in the Iberian peninsula gargled it to whiten their teeth about 50 years before Christ; amaroli is a Sanskrit word that refers to urine therapy, which in ancient Ayurvedic practice meant imbibing urine in the morning, mid stream; Proverbs 5:15 is thought to be in support of the act ("Drink waters from thy own cistern, flowing water from thy own well"); and J.D. Salinger famously sipped his own, as did the former prime minister of India, Morarji Desai, who even appeared on 60 Minutes to defend his habit.Click here to launch a gallery about urine therapy.
LQWoQ TIL Linda Fiorentino, aka Bethany from Dogma and Laurel from Men in Black, dated an FBI agent to gain access to his work files to try to help her boyfriend avoid jail time
rRwlx TIL during the Spanish Civil War the anarchist militias had no rank system, no hierarchy, no salutes, and military leaders were elected by the troops
8yZa TIL that the figure in Edvard Munch’s the Scream is not screaming. The figure is hearing a scream.
ADLG7 TIL Clare Hollingworth, an English journalist who first broke the story of the German occupation of Poland in 1939, putting her phone out her window so a doubting British diplomat could hear the tanks.