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TIL Scientists have farted onto Petri dishes to see if farting can contaminate an operating theater.

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E1Pk0 TIL in 2011, a write-in candidate for a board of education election needed only one vote to win, but she lost because she thought her friends/family would vote (they didn't) and was too busy at her son's baseball game to vote for herself.
M7EnV TIL Peter Sellers inhaled poppers before having sex with his wife one night to get "the ultimate orgasm" but instead suffered 8 heart attacks over 3 hours
mxOyP TIL in July 2000, Turner Classic Movies aired The Wizard of Oz with the option of listening to Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon on a separate audio feed.
XVl6 TIL there is a Jules Verne novel called “Paris in the Twentieth Century”, which was written in 1863, set in 1960 and first published in 1994.
4X4Wg TIL: Starsky & Hutch was based on two real-life NYC cops, Lou Telano and John Sepe, who went undercover as Hasidic Jews, gay lovers, and female nurses in the 1960s and 1970s.