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TIL that before toilet paper was widely available, it was common to use pages from the Sears catalog.

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YQPd TIL that since 1983 Larry Flynt has sent a delivery of porn every month to every member of Congress. Congress has tried to stop the deliveries but the U.S. District Court has ruled that the delivery cannot be stopped under the First Amendment
R9X7 TIL The President’s speech in Independence Day was filmed on 6 August 1995 in front of an old aeroplane hangar. The hangar once housed the Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima exactly 50 years earlier on 6 August 1945.
LQBVv TIL that we will probably never discover many highly specialized dinosaur species because they lived in environments where they could not be preserved due to erosion, e.g. mountains
XEljk TIL: Before 1859 baseball umpires sat in a rocking chair 20 feet behind home plate
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