TIL In 1981, at the height of the Medellin Cartel, Miami had a record high 621 murders (compared to 31 in 2023). Because the morgue was always full, the Miami-Dade medical examiner's office had to lease a refrigerated Ryder truck to store all of the bodies.
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Isran and Irael, y’all better cut it out RIGHT. HECKING. NOW. 😡
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TIL The lowest-scoring NBA game in history occurred in 1950 with a 19-18 victory for the Fort Wayne Pistons over the Minneapolis Lakers. Whenever the Pistons led, they held or passed the ball around as long as possible, eliciting boos from their own fans. The shot clock was introduced 4 years later.
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Y’all got your Sinner championship point screenshots and “Carlos won this match” posts ready to go?
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TIL Rabies causes an intense fear of water and induces panic in those offered liquids due to excruciatingly painful muscle spasms that occur when attempting to swallow. This is thought to be the virus's way of "hacking" the brain to encourage its own spread to others via the host's saliva.
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Can anyone tell me what kind of snake this is? [Central Georgia]
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TIL Monica Seles won 8 tennis Grand Slams by the age of 19. In 1993, an obsessed fan of Seles's main rival, Steffi Graf, ran onto court with a knife and stabbed Seles in the back. Although she eventually returned to tennis, Seles only won 1 additional Grand Slam for the remainder of her career.
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TIL of “character amnesia,” a phenomenon where native Chinese speakers have trouble writing words once known to them due to the rise of computers and word processors. The issue is so prevalent that there is an idiom describing it: 提笔忘字, literally meaning "pick up pen, forget the character."
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Are we off work tomorrow
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TIL In 1995, a boy was discovered with blood containing no trace of his father’s DNA due to an extremely rare case of partial human parthenogenesis, where the mother’s egg cell divided just prior to fertilization, making parts of his body genetically fatherless.
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3 dead, 6 hurt after mass shooting at Midtown Daiquiri Bar
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My dad and I back in 1971
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TIL In 2003, the All-England Lawn Tennis Club (organizers of Wimbledon) began paying $2M annually for pandemic insurance, which it did for 17 years. In 2020, Wimbledon was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the Club collected a $141M payout.
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How you say cucumber?
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[Request] How long would your penis have to be to walk around with it in your own butthole?
And they said math has no real world applications
In his first act as Pope, the American pope has declared that Coca-Cola Zero will be used as the blood of Christ and the quarter pounder (NOT the royale) with cheese will be the body of Christ. Guns are also now mandatory in Mass (to be renamed “Mass Shootings”)
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Why do the Cardinals get to choose the new pope?
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Why don’t NBA players just dunk every single time?
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Benito Mussolini and friends after the people had enough (1945)
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Hewwo, I really want a Nintendo switch 2 but I can’t find one on internet pre order 🥺 are there any big strong sexy Redditors who can give me theirs? This is me btw if that matters
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Who was the most influential pope of the last 4 years?
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I’m here to tell you something fellas. You don’t have a small dick. Your dick has a big YOU.
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RIP In Peace Pope Francis 😔💯
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Maximum security prison in Norway
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