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DQ7BV TIL Thomas Edison worked on a Spirit Phone which would allow humans to connect with the dead
0dpXR TIL that in the 18th century, there was a man named Charles Domery who reportedly ate an entire cat, then proceeded to eat the candles and the stuffing from his bed. He also allegedly ate live snakes and lizards, and claimed that his insatiable hunger was due to a "worm" in his stomach.
E1e1W TIL about Joseph Pujol (aka Le Petomane) who was a Fartiste. After swimming in the sea, he discovered an icy feeling in his stomach, and upon coming ashore, found water poring from his rectum. He discovered he had a special talent in contracting the muscles in his abdomen and could fart at will.