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TIL Japanese Yakuza used to implant glass “pearls” in their penis for every year they served in prison.

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Zppmv TIL 1941 after a meteor shower two Canadian Inuit announced they were Jesus and God and convinced people to kill their sled dogs since people will soon be able to fly. 9 people ended up losing their lives as a result of the community spread insanity.
waM6 TIL that Gamespot ripped the PSX version of Alien Resurrection to shreds for its “awful control scheme” of moving with the left analogue stick and looking with the right, better known as todays standard for console shooters
78Gd7 TIL that German scientists in the 1930s were the first to conceive of the atom bomb, but their research was abruptly ended in 1939 when the government conscripted them. The Nazis never got close to making a functional atom bomb because their scientists were in the battlefield.
awXwZ TIL of "The Family Shakespeare", a 19th century version of Shakespeare's works that attempted to edit them to make them suitable for children. Very popular during the 1800s, it is now widely criticized as an example of literary censorship.
KYgjB TIL in 1599, when the local Jivaro Indians in Ecuador got tired of enduring the cruel Spanish governor, who heavily taxed gold miners. The Indians caught this lover of gold and poured molten metal down his throat.