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TIL the the longest running scientific experiment is the pitch drop experiment that started in 1927

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e0rYk TIL of Fred, a New Jersey goat who was blamed for freeing over 60 animals from a livestock auction pen. Fred had escaped the auction house a year prior. After some of the animals were rounded up, Fred was seen headbutting the gate, leading the auction house manager to suspect Fred as the culprit.
AD0Ra TIL Charlie Chaplin was into young girls. He fired an under aged girl from his movie after refusing to abort his child and narrowly escaped a sex scandal by marrying her in secret.
wbk8 TIL Harold Williams a 20th Century Linguist and Journalist spoke 58 languages and learnt Serbian in two days. He amazed delegates at the League of Nations by speaking to each in their own language.
LQd1Q TIL that, as per his final request, the heart of Frédéric Chopin was removed and given to his sister who smuggled it into Poland and buried it at a local church.
epxOD TIL about the “Bogota Bag”, a known medical procedure where a plastic bag, typically an IV bag, is cut open and placed over the stomach to provide a hermetic seal over exposed organs that are so swollen the stomach must be cut open and exposed to relieve fatal pressure.