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TIL on Halloween 1992, a BBC mock documentary "Ghostwatch" was mistaken for a real one amongst most of its 11 million UK viewers (receiving 20,000 complaints about its scary content), and was never broadcast again after that experience

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VBmYD TIL dolphins get drugged when chewing pufferfish
AWOB TIL that Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin had an improvised jam session which was recorded but never released.
R7kxw TIL Richard Klinkhamer's wife "disappeared" in 1991. He then wrote a book on seven ways to kill your spouse. In 2000, new owners of his former home found the skeletal remains of his wife, and in 2001 he was sentenced to 7 years in prison. He was released in 2003 for good behavior.
xVMDw TIL: Glasgow's Duke of Wellington statue was allowed to keep a traffic cone on his head by the local council because every time they removed it over the last 30 years a new one would appear within days costing them £10,000 a year to remove them.
J189k TIL about Sharon Campbell-Rayment, a Canadian woman who developed a Scottish accent after suffering a fall while horse back riding. Her condition is a result of Foreign Accent syndrome