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TIL Roman Emperor Claudius Augustus had crazy gas and loved it!

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N77E8 TIL the Miss South Carolina teen who became an internet meme for her incomprehensible answer contemplated suicide after her pageant flub
RrDl TIL that French Bulldogs cannot reproduce on their own. They have to be artificially inseminated AND deliver only by C-section.
grR9 TIL that after becoming associated with the catchphrase “billions and billions,” Carl Sagan had a unit of measurement named after him. One sagan is equal to at least four billion, since the smallest number that may be described as “billions and billions” must be two billion plus two billion.
vPmOr TIL that humans are believed to be the only animals that can blush. That’s because embarrassment is a complicated emotion requiring understanding others’ opinions and other factors.
YpoP TIL that several airlines who aired the movie “Rain Man” deleted the sequence in which Raymond reels off statistics on airline accidents, except for Quantas, who even promoted one of the movie’s writers to first class once when he traveled on their airline.