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TIL that despite being 8369 times bigger than Washington DC, Alaska has only 50k more people living in it.

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K7vE TIL that in 1774 two London doctors formed an institution to treat drowning victims. One treatment used: Smoke Enemas. Volunteer medical assistants (called ‘Pipe Smoker London Medics’) inserted an enema tube with rubber tubing attachments into the victim and blew smoke into the rectum.
LQWJ0 TIL of Karel Soucek, who successfully went over Niagara Falls in a barrel and planned a museum about his stunt. To fund it he performed a stunt in which, inside a barrel, he would fall 180 feet from the roof of the Houston Astrodome into a water tank. The barrel hit the rim of the tank, killing him.
m10vE TIL that Jack Woolams, the test pilot for the first American jet fighter, wore a gorilla mask and a bowler hat while flying so that any sightings of the jet by other pilots wouldn't be believed by people on the ground.
EWlw TIL that in the Vietnamese version of Cinderella (Tam Cam), at the end, Cinderella dismembered her step sister, put the body into a jar of food and sent it to her step mother to eat, which she enjoyed until she found the skull at the bottom of the jar and died of shock.
0eP1 TIL the “XXX” symbol on jugs of moonshine is an indicator of how many times it has been through the still. Each X indicates one run; three X’s means pure alcohol.