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TIL Siegfried and Roy were fired from their first gig together for bringing a live cheetah on a cruise ship.

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gMW4D TIL about Benjamin Careathers, an american man who sued RedBull in 2015, stating that after 10 years of consuming the product, he received no wings, or enhanced physical or intellectual performance.
9rGM TIL classical and heavy metal music attract listeners with similar personalities but dissimilar ages. Younger people of the personality type like metal, older counterparts like classical. Both share their motivation: to hear something dramatic and theatrical, a “love of the grandiose.“
b64oE [TIL] When Hideki Tojo was captured by Americans, a dentist secretly put in Morse code "Remember Pearl Harbor" into his pair of dentures
9Yr5G TIL Audi had to use more durable horns in Indian-market cars, as their normal horns would have been unable to cope with the amount of honking Indian drivers do.
rQmW TIL the average high school kid today has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the early 1950’s