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TIL There is a Pub in Austria that has been open since 803

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wEwo TIL the NYPD once strip-searched a black man, cuffed him with his hands behind his back, sodomized him with a plunger, then jammed the plunger handle into his mouth. His colon and bladder were severly damaged. The NYPD claimed his injuries were the result of “abnormal homosexual activities”.
ZGpB TIL: Ruth Bader Ginsburg was such a poor cook, that her husband “expelled” her from the kitchen and took charge of all cooking, despite traditional gender roles. When her husband died, the spouses of SCOTUS justices released a cookbook in his honor.
6QNY TIL a man blew his head off in the middle of the Harvard campus, as an “as an experiment in nihilism”, as described in his 1900-pg manifesto.
j687M TIL that employers prefer not to hire or promote short employees and that they do not adequately compensate them. According to various studies, controlling for other variables, every inch of height is worth hundreds of dollars in annual income.
WJMA TIL Dock Ellis once threw a no-hitter while tripping balls on LSD. He claimed to have seen Richard Nixon and Jimi Hendrix, and the footage of the game was locked away because it was “an embarrassment to the league.”