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TIL of “incest corpse powder”, a powder witches use to “curse” people, made from dried semen produced from intercourse with the corpse of a female relative.

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LAN0 TIL (then VP) Calvin Coolidge learned of President Harding’s death while visiting his parent’s home in Vermont. His father, a notary public, used a family bible to administer the oath of office to his son, swearing him in as President of the United States.
e0P0E TIL that Mercury is the closest planet to Earth and to every other planet in the solar system most of the time.
aMVo TIL that on April Fools Day 1974, an man hauled 70 tires into the crater of a dormant volcano in Alaska and set them on fire, terrifying nearby residents into thinking the volcano was erupting again.
p4j4 TIL a bomb went off in a commercial airliner, blowing it into several pieces and fell for 3 minutes before crashing on a frozen mountain top. One woman survied and now holds the Guinness World Record for the highest fall survived without a parachute, at 33,330 feet.
p88re TIL There is a Disney character that is not in any movie or TV show and can only be found in Disney World in Florida. The Orange Bird, a character that came through a partnership with Disney and the Florida Citrus Commission.