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TIL in 1866, the State of Mississippi spent more than half its yearly budget providing Civil War veterans with prosthetics

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1ae67 TIL that if you regularly drink ground coffee, you're likely not allergic to cockroaches.
O9k7 TIL Black Sabbath’s Iron Man is about a man who goes to the future and sees the destruction of the world. When returning to his own time to warn people he is turned into iron and thus mocked. He decides to destroy the world bringing about the end he tried to prevent.
nWxyr TIL the first parody movie was 1905's The Little Train Robbery, a parody of 1903's The Great Train Robbery. Both were directed by Edwin S. Porter
a86ky TIL that the first vending machine was built in the 1st century AD by Heron of Alexandria, the same man who created the first known steam engine
N1Me TIL a man running from a police helicopter using thermal imaging tried to fool the TI cameras by hiding in fresh manure. It didn’t work.