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TIL about Tinkle Tweakers : If you do meth, you can save your urine and either extract the meth from it, or just drink it to get high again.

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QNQPd Til a boy in Pakistan cut his own hand when an imam asked 'Who among the crowd had stopped praying?'He misheard the question and raised his hand by mistake, But the crowd accused him of Blasphemy. So he went to his house, cut off his hand, put it on a plate, and gave it to the cleric.
8aKO4 TIL of The Essex, an American ship which was attacked by a sperm whale in 1820. The 20-man crew set out in the surviving life boats for several months, resorting to drawing lots to decide who would be sacrificed and consumed. 8 men survived. The story was the inspiration for the novel 'Moby Dick'.
dLDZ TIL for Star Trek’s groundbreaking interracial kiss, NBC worried that Southern affiliates might refuse to air the episode, so they filmed the scene with and without the kiss, but stars Nichols and Shatner consciously sabotaged the non-kiss takes so they could only air the kiss version.
KONjB TIL The legendary heart on satin intro for "I Love Lucy" was created specifically for the 1959–67 CBS daytime network rebroadcasts, and subsequent syndication. The original intros featured animated matchstick figures of Arnaz & Ball making reference to each episode's sponsors.
0wRkL TIL a woman with an IQ of 189 died after drinking 4 gallons of water in one sitting trying to combat stomach cancer.