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TIL that in the Old West people used to wipe their butts with corn cobs

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0EPy TIL that a Vietnam War veteran waited in line at a Jane Fonda book signing just to spit tobacco juice in her face, calling her a traitor to the US for her actions in the 1970s
46kJ TIL if you eject from an airplane the ejection seat manufacturer will give you a free neck tie
R7RR7 TIL on a mission to the International Space Station in January 2015, scientists tested the regenerative properties of planarian worms in zero gravity. One specimen actually grew a second head through spontaneous regeneration and when researchers tried amputating it, both heads grew back.
lok4A TIL in 555, Chinese Emperor Wenxuan decided that Buddhism and Taoism should be merged into one religion. He had Buddhist and Taoist monks debate and declared the Buddhists victorious, ordering Taoism merged into Buddhism. Some Taoist monks refused, but after he executed 4 monks, the others submitted
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