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Today I Learned that a medical condition exists where a pinky toe can self-amputate!

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9Y8jM TIL that people sentenced to death by beheading were advised to give the headsman a gold coin to ensure he did not botch the beheading and cause a painful death by multiple strokes
b6vR9 TIL the V-2 rockets the Nazis used to shell London in a terror campaign "had no effect on the outcome of the war", and were such a waste of resources that Freeman Dyson described the V-2 program as "almost as good as if Hitler had adopted a policy of unilateral disarmament."
pYwKQ TIL "Uncle Tom" was originally Anti-Slavery and was inspired by a real person
Z5ER TIL: Japan didn’t ban child pornography until 1999. Even after 1999, possession of child pornography wasn’t illegal, only production and sale were.
b6YK0 TIL Jack Black’s mother was an engineer for NASA who worked the problem of getting the Apollo 13 astronauts home while she was in labor.