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TIL Kyle and Eric Menendez appeared on a Mark Jackson basketball card taken between the murder of their parents and their arrest.

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epB9k TIL about a phenomenon in mines called rock burst. Rock bursts occur when mining tunnels alter the pressure placed on nearby rocks which can cause the rocks to explode. Miners are killed every year by rock bursts.
A9yo TIL Napolean wasn’t actually short. He was actually a taller than average. British propaganda portrayed him as shorter.
xgxk TIL that multiple cities claim to be the “Second City of the United Kingdom”. Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, and Manchester argue for the title, as did Calcutta, Dublin, and Philadelphia in the past.
5YEYp TIL the 1985 film "Better Off Dead" was semi-biographical. The writer-director really did have a girlfriend break up with him to go out with the captain of the ski team. He really was heartbroken and suicidal over it...and the paperboy that wanted his two dollars...yeah... that was a thing too!
d8EJ9 TIL that several of the peoples of the eastern New Guinea Highlands have developed an "avoidance language", used when collecting pandanus nuts in order to not use words that are thought of as being "unhealthy" for the plants.