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TIL that the Virgin river ends in Las Vegas. Why am I not surprised?

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oAVW TIL that after being seriously burned in her disappearing scene in Munchkinland, Margaret Hamilton (The Wicked Witch of the West) refused to do a subsequent scene requiring her to ride a smoking pipe broomstick. Her fill-in was hospitalized for eleven days with serious burns when the pipe exploded.
rwMy TIL that sling bullets from the siege of Perusia (41 BC) have been found with phrases on them such as “catch”, “take this”, and “For Pompey’s backside”
OoaYY TIL a German peasant girl claimed she tasted the sweet foreskin of Jesus during communion in the 13th century. Her confessor's notes about it were published 500 years later, confiscated and put on the index of banned books, then re-released in the 20th century.
6ekl TIL that so many British people make tea after the tv show “Eastenders” finishes, that backup power stations go on standby to cope with the massive surge in electricity
5YwoB TIL Greg Ham, the flautist and founding member of the band Men at Work, died of an overdose following a bout of depression sustained from losing a plagiarism lawsuit from copyright trolls. His crime: using part of the children's nursery rhyme "Kookaburra" on his solo in the song "Down Under"