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TIL Bill Nye the Science Guy’s ex-wife tried to poison him
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TIL that Gandhi used to sleep every night with naked teenage girls to stress test his vows of celibacy against the beguiling charms of the erotic
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TIL: The car JFK was assassinated in was cleaned and repurposed back into rotation and served as the presidential limo for Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Carter before being retired in 1977.
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TIL The Blanket Octopus rips off the Portuguese Man O’ War’s tentacles and uses them for defensive purposes
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TIL the Chinese city of Fancheng held out for nearly 6 years against the Mongols - until Kublai Khan's nephew sent him Muslim engineers from Iran that built counterweight trebuchets, with a range of 1,600 ft. and launching projectiles weighing 660 lbs. The city fell within a few days.
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TIL that the stethoscope was invented when a doctor felt uncomfortable placing his head on a woman's chest.