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TIL someone in Voronexh, Russia vandalized a Soviet-era monument not by destroying it, but by painting it to look like Patrick Star from Spongebob Squarepants.

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5Yo4P TIL on 1642, Sir John Denham asked Charles I to spare Sir William Waller from execution, saying that "while Wither lives, Denham will not be the worst poet in England."
8aON4 TIL the capacity of an average garbage truck in North America -- 500-1000 homes!
nWnP7 TIL that Djibouti, a small country with less than a million people, hosts military bases from the US, China, Japan, France and Italy. Due to its strategic position at the mouth of the Red Sea, leases from foreign military bases make up 5% of its economy.
J9VQ TIL That Kate Mara has a clause in her film contracts that allows her to attend the Super Bowl if either the Steelers or the Giants make it on account of her mother’s family owning the Steelers and her father’s owning the Giants.
lrZK TIL that a man was killed by a lava lamp in 2004, when he chose to heat the glass section via stove. The lamp built up so much pressure that it exploded, and a piece of glass shot through his heart.