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TIL in 2007, Iran arrested 14 squirrels for spying.

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oRKvY TIL:In 1523, Charles V allowed the construction of a cathedral choir and main altar within the Mesquita, a famed mosque in Cordoba, Spain. Charles later regretfully declared, “You have built what you or others might have built anywhere, but you have destroyed something that was unique in the world.”
4xBg TIL that the Great Stork Derby was a contest held in Toronto from 1926-1936, in which women competed to produce the most babies in order to win $750K as stipulated in the will of a wealthy lawyer. The prize ended up being split among four women who each had 9 babies.
VML7p TIL Dave Grohl hoped to keep his anonymity when making his 1st record and recorded it all himself. He titled it Foo Fighters to lead people to think it was a group. Later he called it “the stupidest fucking band name in the world,” and would have reconsidered if he knew he was going to be successful
ZpAvo TIL that the founder of the notorious “Bumfights” video series was caught trying to ship stolen baby parts out of Thailand in 2018
mxwLy TIL that NASA renamed it's condom sizes (used for urinating) from small, medium, and large, ginormous, and humongous because astronauts would get spacesuits dirty due to picking ill-fitting sizes.