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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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9KZr TIL of a Japanese air ace who was shot in the face during a dogfight. Blind in one eye and part paralysed, “he flew upside down to prevent blood from blinding his other eye”, flew 5 hours back to base, made his report and then had surgery without anasthesia.
wLp7E TIL the Dick's motto means "Yet my hope is unbroken"
nedgd Til about the history of the Haka. What the dance means with translations of every step and word.
b64vN TIL Catholic Church has a birthday. Pentecost is the birthday of the Catholic Church.
LkPvV TIL that George R.R. Martin still writes his "A Song of Ice and Fire" books on a 1980's MS-DOS computer running the text-processing program Wordstar 4.0