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TIL that an american prisoner named mike kurtz ate soap which made him look sickly and nearing death tricking the governor into pardoning him for his 12 years sentence.

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GEXg TIL that there is an organization called the National Odd Shoe Exchange where you can send and receive shoes if your feet are different sizes
E1eQp TIL about the "Coolidge effect," male animals preferring to mate with new females. Pres. Coolidge and his wife visited a farm, & Mrs. Coolidge learning a rooster mated a dozen times a day, said "Tell Mr. Coolidge." Pres. Coolidge told the rooster had a new hen each time, said "Tell Mrs. Coolidge."
eeob TIL Video Games were initially called “Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Devices” which were used by the Military.
KNl9 TIL a man in Michigan whose house was slated for demolition switched the house numbers with his neighbor so the crew demolished the wrong house.
pY8gN TIL the Mercedes Sprinter resulted in Dodge branding in the US to avoid paying a “chicken tax” on light trucks. All thanks to a plethora of US chickens in Europe after WW2