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TIL that in 2010, two women planning to blow themselves up on New Years Eve in Russia’s Red Square were foiled by a spam text message which blew one of them up early.

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lLPV TIL that “Butt” is a medieval unit of measurement for wine. A butt load of wine is 129 gallons.
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8ee7G TIL about “Bonin English” — a dialect that is an English/Japanese fusion, spoken on the Ogasawara Islands. Previously uninhabited, the islands’ first modern inhabitants were anglophones in the 19th century. The islands went back and forth between the UK, US, and Japan. Today, they are part of Japan.
NNpN TIL Ringo Starr temporarily quit the Beatles during the recording of the White Album in 1968. The drum track for “Back In the U.S.S.R.” Was played by Paul McCartney.