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TIL Channing Tatum burned the skin off of the head of his penis while filming The Eagle.

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1ald8 TIL a common practice while electing a new pope was for Cardinals to cast a throw away vote for someone who was not seen as a strong candidate To see how the others were voting, one year the majority of cardinals cast the same throw away vote and in 1335, Jaques Fournier became Pope Benedict XII
xV0jB TIL that in 1908 a meteorite hit Russia with hundreds of times more power than an atom bomb, destroying 500,000 acres of forest, knocking ppl over 40 miles away and causing weather events around the globe - but no one was killed and no impact crater was found.
6Er6W TIL that as a teenager, former President of the United States Richard Nixon would often get up at 4 AM to go buy vegetables for his impoverished family
oBPlr TIL, not only are eggplants fruits, they're technically classified as a berry
P1JLZ TIL that a Texas lawyer killed himself because Dateline NBC waited outside his home to catch him in their child predator sting