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TIL many American men’s dress shoes have a notch cut out of the heel, referred to as “The Gentleman’s Notch”.

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0dOER TIL about the Putmayo Genocide. The Peruvian Amazon Company, a rubber company founded in 1907, enslaved the native population of the Putmayo region and forced them to work under awful conditions and brutal punishments, causing terrible suffering and death.
Yp8Nx TIL Pluto was discovered in 1930. It takes around 248 years to complete one orbit around the sun. Since its discovery it still has not even made one complete orbit.
jNePn TIL of Shi Pei Pu, a Chinese spy. He masqueraded as a woman and had a 20 year long sexual relationship with a French diplomat, whom he used as a source of intelligence. He even convinced the diplomat that he had given birth to a child, whom he had purchased.
ADLbo TIL Female Kangaroos Have Three Vaginas
PYaXE TIL of ‘Sin Eaters’ whose job it was to “eat” the sins of a deceased person. The position only paid a couple dollars per sin eating and it usually called for the individual to eat a piece of bread that had been sitting on the dead person’s chest or lips.