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TIL Even though Lions live in the Savannah the reason they are called king of the Jungle is because the word Jungle comes from a Sanskrit word meaning uninhabited place. Not necessarily a forest

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woJeP TIL that Harry Houdini was always skeptical of the mediums that prayed on vulnerable people, so he tried to contact his dead mother, Cecelia, in 1922. It was a fail because the medium, Lady Doyle, wrote down what his mother was apparently saying in English, which was a language Cecelia did not know.
dQjK TIL New Jersey lifeguards can retire when they’re 45 years old with a lifelong pension of up to $61,000.00/year. And when they die, the payments continue on to their dependents
x6Vrk TIL of the "royal touch", a medieval practice wherein monarchs touched one of their subjects suffering from an illness, thereby supposedly curing them of said illness
kOyPE TIL about the melon drop scam, a con that targeted Japanese tourists. Scammers would buy a watermelon for a low price and then bump into an Asian tourist and charge them about $100 for the broken melon. This is due to the higher fruit prices in Japan. These days the scam involves any broken item.
G41G TIL In 1989, the Australian youth radio station Triple J played the song “Express Yourself” by NWA on continuous loop for 24 hours (360 times in a row) while the station went on a protest strike against censorship of NWA’s song Fuck Tha Police