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TIL that Martha Stewart got high with Snoop Dogg at the Comedy Central roast of Justin Bieber.

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nW9Qo TIL a study found that George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire contains over 2,000 named characters with over 41,000 interactions b/w them. Yet the most prominent characters avg out to have only 150 others to keep track of, which is the same number the avg human brain has evolved to deal with.
NyQP TIL that after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, 1 member of Congress out of 470 against war. The dissenting vote? The first woman elected to Congress. “As a woman I can’t go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.” She was mobbed and had to hide in a phone booth until Congressional police came.
lNpN TIL lime is poisonous to dogs
ANOMn TIL that after leading a peasant revolt in Hungary in 1514, György Dósza was punished by being chained to a heated iron throne and had pieces of flesh torn off by hot pliers. His followers were then forced to eat him alive by biting the spots where the pliers were inserted and to swallow his flesh.
J7jk TIL during the filming of Snow Buddies (an Air Bud spinoff) 5 puppies died.