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TIL Twisted Sister band members never drank, never did drugs, never partied, but kept that quiet to avoid hurting their reputation.

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pYRYA TIL about the Muammar Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights, which was created by the eponymous dictator to “bestow tribute upon symbolic figures of struggle and faith in the values of freedom to all humans”. The first recipient was Nelson Mandela.
nako TIL that a ‘micromort’ is a unit given to the amount of times a person will die out of a million tries (for example, going skydiving is 7 micromorts, meaning that there is a 7/1,000,000 chance that a person will die after a trip)
Lbw0 TIL the last thing John Lennon said to Paul McCartney was “Think about me every now and then, old friend.”
W7yP9 TIL Australian military ration packs include a tube of Vegemite.
E1N1V TIL about the CWS T1 a 1930's Polish car that only needed one wrench and a screwdriver to work on.