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TIL that Silphion, a thought to be extinct contraceptive used by ancient Greeks and Romans, has been recently discovered in Anatolia.

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vDgK TIL In 1915 a man sentenced to death by firing squad. He was shot 10 times including a final shot in the head. He somehow survived, crawled away and found help. He became a local legend and toured with Ripley’s Believe it or Not before dying in 1975.
OoG7 TIL that an elderly woman’s uterus fell out of her, she then proceeded to push it back up inside her and lodged a potato to hold up it up, a few weeks later the potato sprouted inside her
9GD6 TIL Jason Lee, of My Name is Earl finally quit Scientology! (In 2016)
D10Wj TIL that farmers have cows swallow a big magnet, so when cows eat things like loose nails, it doesn’t travel through their digestive tract and rip it open.
kpLg TIL that after enlisting in 1942, Audie Murphy was rejected by the Marines for being too short and the navy for being too skinny. The Army accepted him, but did not want to send him into combat because he looked so young. He went on to receive every military award for valor available from the Army.