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TIL:October 5, 1582 doesn’t exist.
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TIL in 18th Century Japan, a woman farting in public was considered so embarrassing that it could break off an engagement. Some women would employ a Heoi-bikuni (fart carrying nun) to accompany them everywhere, whose job was to take the blame for their farts.
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TIL the Goliath Grouper fish was once called the “Jewfish” but had it’s name changed because it was thought to be too offensive
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TIL that Rutherford B. Hayes didn't serve alcohol at White House events. Secretary of State Evarts quipped that at White House dinners, "water flowed like wine."
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TIL The first Atomic bomb dropped on Japan was assembled while the aircraft was actually in flight, because bombers kept crashing and burning on the runway. It took them 25 minutes to assemble the weapon while in flight.
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TIL that manmade air pollution is the cause of more than two million deaths every year globally