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TIL Graham crackers were invented to make people stop masturbating.

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ZaQo TIL that in 1990 the Galileo Spacecraft, in an experiment designed by Carl Sagen, passed by Earth to see if life could be detected from space. The answer? Barely, but yes.
X04nE TIL that one of the most fashionable colors of the Victorian era, Scheele’s Green, was made with arsenic and many people were poisoned and died after painting their walls this color.
dDwjj TiL After the Monkees broke up, Peter Tork briefly worked as a high school teacher in the mid-70's. He taught music, social studies, math, French and history, and coached baseball at several schools.
16A7d TIL: In the past, covering a yawn with one's hand was believed to protect against the devil or the loss of one's soul. The superstition likely originated from the idea that showing a yawn made one susceptible to spirits entering the wide-open mouth.
a1wL TIL a lawyer tried to settle a civil suit by invoking his right to trial by combat. In New York. In 2015.