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TIL: In the 1800's James F O'Connell was marooned on Pohnpei Island where he was coerced into getting tattooed head to toe by the locals. When he was eventually rescued, he joined PT Barnum's Circus as "The Tattooed Irishman" and became the world's first tattooed showman

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9YavD TIL that all the photos of ikea products you find in their catalogs are not even real photos. They create all the furniture in a 3D program and place them in different scenes (like a kitchen). Then they render it so realistically that you can't distinguish it from a real photo. Since 2004!
VB5R4 TIL Washington State leads apple production in the United States, accounting for over half of the nation’s domestically grown apples.
x6Vkg TIL that dromaesaurids, aka Raptors, are now mostly commonly considered to be covered in feathers
neBbB TIL from the 1930’s to the 50’s, film studios used pure white asbestos fibers to replicate the look of snow. It was used in ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and the famous snow scene at the end of Bing Crosby’s ‘White Christmas.’ Brands of asbestos fake snow included ‘White Magic’ ‘Snow Drift’ and ‘Pure White.’
4o6g TIL a Polish Wikipedia user got his entire city banned from editing for 3 days due to him posting pictures of penises to pages related to Catholicism and Polish politics