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TIL on the DVD release of Borat, there is a language option for Hebrew, but choosing it only results in a warning screen reading "You have been trapped, Jew!"

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JYgDB TIL Kurt Cobain admitted when he wrote Smells Like Teen Spirit he was trying to write the ultimate pop song. “I was basically trying to rip off the Pixies.”
ADKxa TIL that there are good reasons to support the claim that humanity is effectively extinction proof. The main reason being the advent of farming, some 10,000 years ago.
p8x0N TIL of Prince Estabrook. A slave who was wounded fighting alongside patriots at Lexington and fought until the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783. He was emancipated after the war.
1aAvW TIL of the “weepy voiced killer” - a serial killer who would call police after his murders & cried down the end of the line about what he had done. He was caught when a woman he stabbed 15 timed escaped by smashing him over the face with a bottle.
dDmbZ TIL that Asians are the only American racial minority group not overrepresented in the homeless population.