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TIL of a supersition that claims if you utter "Rabbit, Rabbit" before any other words on the 1st of the month, it will bring good luck.

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vB6r TIL Evelyn McHale is referred to as the “Most Beautiful Suicide”. On April 30, 1947 she jumped from the observation deck of the Empire State building and fell 86 floors onto the United Nations Assembly Cadillac. The picture was taken by a photography student 4 minutes after the crash.
epPv5 TIL a Land Rover commercial was banned by the Advertising Standards Authority because it had sounds of beeping parking sensors as a Land Rover backs up closer to the edge of a cliff. Two viewers had submitted complaints because the SUV's rear parking sensors were not capable of detecting cliff edges
nWym7 TIL Amarillo, Texas was the sole producer of commercial helium in the world for a number of years and now houses the National Helium Reserve, which once held over 1 billion cubic meters (about 170,000,000 kg) of helium!
lo5va TIL that, upon their induction into the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame in 2006, legendary English Punk Band the Sex Pistols refused to attend their own ceremony and lead singer Johnny Rotten sent an angry note calling the museum a 'piss stain'.
xVoV0 TIL that the Ivory Billed Woodpecker has been believed to be extinct since the early 1900's. In 1932, however, in an attempt to refute these claims, a Louisiana state legislator and an attorney shot and killed one of the last of the birds and brought the remains to their local wildlife office.