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TIL in 1930 the US government barred and returned any mail from Spain bearing a new set of stamps, which showed a world-famous painting of a naked woman

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wlAW TIL When Ed Headrick, the designer of the modern Frisbee and “Father of Disc Golf” died, he had his ashes molded into Frisbees. He said, “When we die, we don’t go to purgatory, we just land up on the roof and lay there.”
M77o0 TIL that scientists have studied the Poop Knife. No, not the one you're thinking of. The story of an Inuit who supposedly created a knife by freezing his poop.
kOxym TIL The Quran allows coffee because it defines intoxicants as which “covers the intellect,” i.e., causes inebriation or drunkenness like beer, or euphoria such as cocaine or amphetamines.Caffeine is not an intoxicant in that sense, but rather only a mild stimulant and hence permissible
b9oop TIL that not all torpedoes are designed to pierce hulls then explode, some detonate below the target ship without making contact. This creates a gas bubble that causes the ship to be thrust out of the water then dropped back into the resulting void, often breaking the vessel in half and sinking it.
PYLog TIL that Indonesia created manta ray sanctuaries upon realising each manta ray brings lifetime tourism income of $1 million.