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TIL a person can be identified not only by fingerprints but also by tongue .

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xVOyg TIL About the diving horses of Atlantic City. From the mid 1880's until 1978! the (mostly female) riders would ride their horse up a ramp some 60 ft high to plummet into a small pool.
E164x TIL that one controversial scene in Hitchcock's Psycho was when Marion flushed the money down the toilet because "no flushing toilet had appeared in mainstream film and television in the United States at that time".
WkMlL TIL that the Illuminati is present in modern conspiracy theories largely due to some prank letters published in Playboy magazine in the 60's
8aanK TIL Quentin Tarantino heard the "Woo Hoo" song by the 5, 6, 7, 8s (used in Kill Bill) in a clothing store in Japan and bought the CD from the store's manager
ykbw TIL that in the 1924 Tour de France, riders used cocaine and chloroform as performance enhancing drugs.