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TIL held in farts enter your bloodstream
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TIL Actor Samuel L. Jackson had a stuttering problem as a child and still sometimes battles with it today. To combat the stutter he uses the curse word “motherf**ker” as an affirmation word.
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TIL over 18 million Chinese were killed in World War 2, then over 5 million in the resumed Chinese Civil War, then over 50 million from executions and starvation over the next 20 years after the communists took over.
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TIL that bone china is made from bone ash, feldspathic material and kaolin, and it originated in the UK, not in China.
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TIL The oldest known collection of jokes was created by Philip the 2nd of Macedon, he paid for a social club in Athens to write down its members' jokes (circa 4th century BCE). The oldest joke book we still have is the Philogelos which contains 265 jokes and dates likely to the 4th or 5th century CE
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TIL that Jason Schwartzman is a member of the Coppola family. His mother is Talia Shire, aka Adrian from Rocky, his uncle is Francis Ford Coppola, and his cousin is Nicolas Cage.