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TIL: George Carlin was arrested for 7 words.
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TIL of John Jones. A medical student who was trapped in the Nutty Putty cave while spelunking in 2009. Rescue attempts were unsuccessful and the cave entrance was eventually sealed with concrete. John's body is still there today.
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TIL that that yodeler Wylie Gustafson, was paid $590 to record the famous “Ya-hooooooooo-oooo” clip for Yahoo. He was told it would be a regional ad only, but two years later it was used during Yahoo’s Super Bowl halftime commercial.
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TIL less than a month before 18 year old Ty Cobb started his rookie season with the Detroit Tigers, his father was shot and killed on the porch of their home. The killer was Cobb’s mother. She claimed she thought he was an intruder. She was charged with murder but later acquitted.
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TIL The expression "Bless you!" goes back to the times of the plague, since sneezing was often the first sign that someone was falling ill with the plague and the blessing was supposed to protect the sneezer
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TIL Swedish millionaire Johan Eliasch purchased 400,000 acres of the Amazon Rainforest from a logging company for $14,000,000 for the sole purpose of its preservation.