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TIL a man named Painless Parker created the Parker Dental Circus, a traveling medicine show with his dental chair on a horse-drawn wagon. He charged 50 cents for each extraction and promised that if it hurt, he would pay the patient $5.

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vmK TIL that gender gap in performance of elite athletes is almost exactly 10%. Scientific evidence suggests that women will not run, jump, swim or ride as fast as men.
7rx6P TIL foxes utilize the earth's magnetic field as a targeting system to find prey
OAbR TIL Huslter is making a porn parody of “The Interview” stating “If Kim Jong-un and his henchmen were upset before, wait till they see the movie we’re going to make.”
p4VQ TIL that when Marilyn Monroe returned from entertaining the troops in Korea, she told then-husband Joe Dimaggio “Joe! Joe! You’ve never heard such cheers” To which he responded “Yes I have”
R9M6 TIL Steve Jobs found a loophole in California law which allows cars less than six months old to be driven without license plates. He made an arrangement to lease an identical new Mercedes every six months so he would never have to put license plates on it.