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TIL that the first vacuum cleaners were horse drawn

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60MX TIL that homeless children in Miami in the 1990s developed an elaborate folk mythology that was spread by oral tradition.
RWV9 TIL: Cocksucker Blues is an unreleased documentary film about The Rolling Stones. Even though the band had commissioned the film, they decided that it was embarrassing and incriminating and did not want it shown. A court order forbids it from being shown unless the director is physically present.
wLjOM TIL: Cilantro is the leaf and coriander is the seed of the same plant.
XEQDD TIL that even though the name Jason contains the first letters of months July-November in order, it predates those months’ additions to the modern calendar by at least 115 years. (July added ~88 BC, August ~4 BC, Argonautica 3rd century BC)
QbVp TIL In 1996, a painting was stolen from the Museum of Bad Art. The museum offered a reward of six dollars and fifty cents for its return, and the purported thief demanded a $5,000 ransom ten years later. It was returned with no ransom paid.