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TIL: Action figures have been made as far back as the first century. Romans made clay figurines of gladiators.

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Yd9B TIL a Chinese family refused to sell their house to the goverment to build a highway, so the government road was built right up to their walls.
lyl5 TIL that in 1997, 14 year old Nathan Zohner was able to get 43 out of 50 of his classmates to vote to ban “Dihydrogen Monoxide” for his science fair project. His project aimed to prove that the use of true facts can lead the ignorant public to false conclusions. He won first prize.
P111Z TIL: 50 year old men traveling alone on foot are the most likely victims of wild boar attacks.
b6Oap TIL it is dangerous to blow air into a pregnant women's vagina. The increased air pressure can pass beneath the fetal membranes and into the circulation causing a venous air embolism that can kill within minutes.
5YlNQ TIL of George Koval, who, in WWII, was an American soldier that secretly gave info the USSR about the Manhattan Project. In 1999, although living in Russia and having been outed as a spy for nearly a half-century, he applied for an American Veteran's Social Security Cheque. He was denied.