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TIL that the world’s oldest wooden wheel has been around for more than 5,000 years

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O186 TIL of Cliff Curtis, a Maori from New Zealand who has played just about every ethnicity Hollywood has thrown his was including an Arab in Three Kings, a Chicano gangster in Training Day, Pablo Escobar in Blow, and the Lord of the Fire Nation in the Last Airbender.
16wKd TIL of "Fruits of Philosophy" a 1832 book describing methods of contraceptions. Writing about an 'obscene' topic the author, physician Charles Knowlton, was prosecuted and jailed. With the book's sensetive topic it was published as a measly 3 by 2.5 inches to make it easy for women to hide
X0DWr TIL that in poker, the nickname for the Hold'em hand with a 9 and a 5 is a "Dolly Parton," named after the song and movie.
b6MKp TIL a patent application was filed for a butt-kicking machine comprising of a seat with a hole in the center, which the user sits upon with his or her posterior exposed to a butt-kicking mechanism located under the seat, which kicks the user in the posterior. This is US Patent Appl. No. 10/977,894.
QJ1Xd TIL that Michael Caine's stage name was originally Michael Scott, but he had to change his name because that name had already been registered by someone else.