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TIL that “competitive endurance tickling” is a thing, and that it apparently has a seedy criminal underbelly filled with personal attacks, legal threats, and manipulation

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X09Wr TIL that Paris’ executioner from 1840-1847 hated his job and developed expensive vices to cope with it. To earn more money, he would charge people to watch him guillotine a sheep; he later pawned the guillotine and planned to switch to an axe. The government bought the guillotine back and fired him.
R5n4Q TIL: Require 4 healthy adult guinea-pigs, 8 sheep, 8 goats for Safety, Safety & Potency Tests related to Anthrax (Pages 338, 339)
9oGG TIL that the “bubonic plague” was a specific way of dying from the plague wherein lymph nodes would swell into lumps called “bubos.” This is also the origin of bruises being called “boo-boos.”
W7G84 TIL that Häagen-Dazs is an American, not European, company founded in the Bronx in 1960
8aYG8 TIL about Chittorgarh, a ~700 acre mountaintop fortress in Rajasthan, India, built in the 700's AD and undefeated for almost 600 years