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TIL Henry Rollins and his friend Joe Cole were held up at gunpoint. Henry escaped but Joe was murdered. Rollins later said he kept a plastic container full of soil soaked with Cole's blood. Rollins said, "I dug up all the earth where his head fell ... I say good morning to him every day"

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GBGJ TIL Elvis Presley asked Richard Nixon if he could get a badge from the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. Presley believed the badge would allow him to legally enter any country with whatever weapons and drugs he wanted. Nixon obliged.
GYR4Q TIL a man once broke into Buckingham Palace and entered the Queen's bedroom, dripping blood and carrying a shard of broken glass. The Queen shouted "What are you doing here?!" and ran out. No charges were brought since breaking into Buckingham Palace wasn't classed as a criminal offence at the time.
OG0PR TIL at the end of hostilities during WW1, a German U-boat surrendered and was supposed to be towed to France, but the tow cable snapped and the submarine washed up on a beach in Hastings, UK. Thousands of tourists visited to see her until she was broken up in 1921.
Y7Vx7 TIL there's an annual 3100 mile ultra-marathon race in which runners run around a city block in Queens, NY for 5649 laps. The record finish is a little over 40 days.
0d9E1 TIL that the guy responsible for making doctors realize stress and spicy food doesn’t cause ulcers poisoned himself, intentionally gave himself ulcers, and got the Nobel Prize for it