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awW9A TIL about Potoooooooo, a popular racing horse that was formerly known as Potatoes, but was changed because the person who wrote his name on his corn bin misheard it as "Pot-8-Os".
lo0P7 TIL In 1942 there was a man called "the phantom barber", who would sneak into people's homes in Mississippi at night and cut their hair
WkJoN TIL of the Peshtigo Fire a forest fire so hot it spawned fire tornadoes (fire whirls), and people that jumped in wells to escape the blaze were boiled alive.