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TIL That wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube men are banned in houston for being a “blight on the aesthetic environment”.

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XOrP TIL that Pablo Picasso, living in Nazi-occupied Paris, suffered harassment from the Gestapo. One officer allegedly asked him, upon seeing a photo of his painting Guernica in his apartment, “Did you do that?” Picasso responded, “No, you did.”
x6Q05 TIL that Andreas Mihavecz, the person who holds the record with longest survival without food or water,* was locked in a holding cell and forgotten for 18 days
pY1LN TIL that during a 19th-century smallpox outbreak, Mi’kmaq healers used tea from the purple pitcher plant to treat patients—and British doctors later confirmed it actually worked.
m1ejY TIL only 1 in 5 US soldiers during WW2 were 'combat forces', everyone else was in support roles.
4rvg TIL that Bayer Pharmaceuticals used to buy prisoners from Auschwitz for medical testing