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TIL the largest example of fossilized human feces ever found was 8 inches (20 cm) long and 2 inches (5 cm) wide

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gQdb TIL that two days before Chuck Yeager’s historic first flight to break the sound barrier, he fell off a horse and broke two ribs. He did not tell anyone, apart from his wife, and his friend Jack Ridley, who made him a device to close the X-1’s hatch out of a broom handle.
nWrNb TIL that Liechtenstein has just one jail
B6Kx TIL Indonesian scientists have developed a male birth control pill that has been proven 99.96% effective in clinical testing
mxPvy TIL: the Club-winged manakin has evolved solid wing bones which it can shake 100 times per second to create sounds to attract a mate
wLp9P TIL the story of Emmett Till, a 14 year old boy that was lynched and terribly disfigured in 1955 for saying "bye baby" to a white woman. The mother demanded an open casket funeral to show the world what they had done. This event is a cornerstone of the civil rights movement.