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Jun 28, 2020

TIL That 200 years ago, Robert Gibbon Johnson ate a whole basket of tomatoes outside a courthouse to prove that they were safe to eat and not posionous!

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Mar 23, 2020

TIL of a woman who gave her neighbor a ‘box of sex toys’ to hold on to. 6 months later the neighbor noticed a stench coming from her closet where the box was stored. She finally opened it and found a decomposing severed head inside. It was the original woman’s husband.

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Feb 27, 2020

TIL that a Spanish town mailed dog poop back to offenders. A team of volunteers looked for careless dog owners and struck up conversations to learn the dog's name, which made it possible to identify the owner via pet records and mail back the poop, labeled "Lost Property." Violations dropped by 70%.

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Feb 24, 2020

TIL Spain's newest submarine was 75+ tons heavier than expected because someone put a decimal point in the wrong place. It could go down, but might not come up again.

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Feb 20, 2020

TIL Salvador Dali once conned Yoko Ono out of $10,000 by sending her a piece of dried grass instead of a hair from his moustache

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Jan 15, 2020

TIL the Nokia ringtone is taken from a classical guitar piece called 'Gran Val' by Francisco Tarrega

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Dec 27, 2019

TIL that some 430,000 years ago, high in the Atapuerca Mountains of northern Spain, a lethal assault was committed. The victim, a young adult Neanderthal, received two blows to the head, just above the left eye.

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Nov 10, 2019

TIL 80's pop group Spandau Ballet got their name after seeing it written on a nightclub toilet. Spandau Ballet actually refers to prisoner hangings at Spandau Prison and their twitching and jumping at the end of the rope.

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Nov 03, 2019

TIL that Lady Gaga admited that Kiss FM was the only radio station to correctly censor the song during the chorus when she replaces "poker face" with "fuck her face". Although not in the official lyrics, the switch can be heard every second repetition of the phrase during the chorus.

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Oct 08, 2019

TIL that it is legal to consume any drug privately in Spain and that the Spanish rank amongst the highest in Europe for cocaine usage.

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Sep 24, 2019

TIL a US treasure hunter found over $500M worth in gold and silver from Peru sunk in the Atlantic ocean. A legal fight forced them to return the booty to Spain. Some of the coins reportedly found are still "missing".

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Apr 19, 2019

TIL that the original 'Nokia Tune' was written in 1902 by Spanish classical guitarist Francisco Tárrega in 1902, and here it is.

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