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TIL in 2010 a Seattle-area county council candidate named Ubax Gardheere once threatened to blow up a school bus and mocked the children who fled the vehicle as "cowards", according to court documents.

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yV7QV TIL The hosts of the world's most successful motoring show, Top Gear (Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May) don't actually like each other
vJN8 TIL of John “Captain Crunch” Draper, a phone phreak who used a toy whistle from a Cap'n Crunch cereal box to hack into phone lines
47Ow TIL of Angel’s Glow, a condition observed in soldiers at the Battle of Shiloh, when their wounds began to glow blue and heal faster. In 2001, a 17yo discovered it was caused by nematode vomit, the beneficial bacterium Photorhabdus luminescens.
KOAAw TIL that in the D.C. metro area, there is a carpooling practice known as "slugging." Strangers wait on a corner to be picked up by another stranger so that the driver can use the HOV lane. Oh and it's all for free.
JYklV TIL that between 1945 and the early 1990s, approximately 40,000 Brutalist, alien-looking sculptures called Spomeniks were built all over Yugoslavia. Intended as World War II memorials, some are the size of a 15-story building.