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TIL the phrase “sex, drugs and rock and roll” is just a modernization of the much older “wine, women and song.”

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BJ8d TIL that Navy SEALs used to be waterboarded as a component of their training but the process was discontinued when no SEAL could handle it.
NjAb TIL that in 2015 at least 120,000 saiga antelopes died mysteriously in mass. This corresponds to about 50% of the entire population of these rare animals.
e000b TIL that in July 2014 a German tourist got into a fight while in Bulgaria. Following advise not to fly he said goodbye to his friends and booked a hotel. A day later he started acting strangely and was last seen running out of Varna airport and climbing a fence, his whereabouts are still unknown.
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