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TIL Kellogg’s Corn flakes were part of a plan to reduce masturbation and sexual energy, and invented by a sanitarium director

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ANbod TIL the most expensive retail price on a wrist watch is $1,750,000 for a Patek Philippe Sky Moon Tourbillon
VMAQD TIL the streets of medieval England were often named after the activities that went on there (Baker Street, Church Hill). "Gropecunt Lane" is exactly what you think it is.
P1d0O TIL of the 1983 Video Game Collapse when industry revenues dropped 97% over two years.
x68G5 TIL some old British medicinal plant names have the suffix ‘wort’ with the first part of the name indicating the type of problem, giving us names like Liverwort, Spleenwort, Throatwort, Pilewort and Bollockwort
4kKX TIL there really IS a bakery where you can gamble with muffins! It’s called Double or Muffin! You buy a muffin and flip a coin. If you win you get two muffins and if you lose you get one muffin!