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TIL that there were 17 natural nuclear reactors in Gabon.

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EWjp TIL it’s Bugs Bunny’s own fault that Elmer Fudd wants to shoot him with a gun. Elmer was a mild-mannered wildlife photographer shooting with a camera, until Bugs Bunny’s incessant pranks drove him suicidally insane.
Rrp7 TIL when Japanese women laugh they often cover their mouths with their hand. This comes from an old Buddhist notion that showing bone is unclean.
JrDB TIL that Rodney Dangerfield replied when asked how long he would be hospitalized: “If all goes well, about a week. If not, about an hour and a half”
Ambw TIL India was attacked on 7/11. Bombs were set off on the Suburban Railway in Mumbai, 209 people were killed and over 700 were injured.
xbZ0 TIL that in one year, a man made fourteen successive trades to turn his red paperclip into a house.