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TIL that in Indonesia, catfish are used to clean septic tanks

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689w TIL One of the “cures” for the Bubonic Plague was to fart in a jar and smell it.
0XeA TIL that with the aim of launching guerrilla operations against the Chinese, the CIA funded the Dalai Lama $1.7 million a year in the 1960s
78L0P TIL of Maurice Wilson who, against all odds, flew his own plane from England to India to be the first to summit Everest under the assumption that ‘prayer and fasting’ would give him the strength to reach the peak.
d884E TIL "tutti frutti" means "all the fruits" in Italian.
4k9ZJ TIL the fig is actually an inverted flower that needs a specific kind of wasp to pollinate.