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TIL Eating hair can result in large, undigestible masses in the stomach called "bezoars" that may require surgery to remove

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VBKYB TIL about how, during World War II, the United States military experimented with using bats as weapons. In a project called "Project X-Ray" or "Project Bat Bomb," the plan was to attach small incendiary devices to bats and release them over Japanese cities.
pMkG TIL that a children’s entertainer named Soupy Sales once asked the children who watched his show to send him “funny green pieces of paper with pictures of U.S. Presidents” from their parents wallets and purses. He was suspended for two weeks when parents complained.
VvXZ TIL in Kazakhstan there is a town where people suddenly started falling asleep for 5 days or longer.
BrMNW TIL that the original camera negatives of Gone With the Wind, Ben Hur, and other documents and memorabilia, are stored in an underground salt mine, as the constant temperature and relative humidity offers natural protection
160lX TIL James Shields was the only U.S. Senator who served in three states: Illinois, Minnesota, and Missouri.