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TIL Eminem repeated the 9th grade three times.

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J19l1 TIL that after fighting off a shark while rowing solo across the Atlantic, adventurer John Fairfax wasn’t believed—so he killed another shark and dropped it off at the reporter’s office to prove his story.
1pZV TIL that real guns are allowed at both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, but water guns are banned.
D1Pnv TIL that when roach poisons claim to kill the whole nest, it's not because roaches share food with others. Roaches are cannibals and a single dose of poison can often be eaten many times and still be deadly.
EvPx TIL in 1973 the USA helped overthrow the elected democratic socialist president Allende in Chile and replaced it with a dictatorship
yVyEl TIL about Behind Closed Doors, a book of pornographic SpongeBob drawings created by Nickelodeon storyboard artists. "The illustrations...contain scenarios such as SpongeBob masturbating, Mr. Krabs defecating into a toilet, and Squidward Tentacles 'reimagined as a sentient penis with tentacles.'"