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TIL that the Red Ryder BB Gun from A Christmas Story is still being manufactured even though the comic it was based on was cancelled in 1963.

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XEQk8 TIL about a British General too nice to execute after being captured by the IRA. He drank and played card with his captors and even helped in the fields. Its believed he was allowed escape
4XOlw TIL about the "The Mad Pooper" an unidentified lady who defecated publicly in Colorado while jogging and targeted multiple places. P&G even offered her free supply if stopped doing that and identified herself. Though no one has come out with her identity the poopings have stopped.
KYBJa TIL Emily Rosa at age nine became the youngest person to have a research paper published in a peer reviewed medical journal. She devised a single-blind protocol to determine if therapeutic touch practitioners could actually detect "human energy fields." She found they were right only 44% of the time
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