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TIL that Kailia Posey aka the “grinning girl” meme from Toddlers & Tiaras died when she was just 16 by suicide

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b6nNZ TIL Conscription in Germany was active till 2011
neEL7 TIL that in 1815, dentistry as we know it today was in its infancy - and the mouths of the rich were rotten. So they took teeth for their dentures from the bodies of tens of thousands of dead soldiers on the battlefield at Waterloo.
wa4Y TIL that all of the notebooks in John Doe’s possession from the film ‘Se7en’ were actually filled to the brim with dark, nonsensical musings. Several members of the art department spent several weeks and $15,000 on them, and their actual contents were only featured during the opening credits.
QNZpE TIL the USA outlet face has a shorter right eye and longer left eye. (Live and neutral wire respectively)
ADyEl TIL That in 1762, Benjamin Franklin had a hollow walking stick created that could secretly hold ~1 pint of oil in it. When the head of the stick was pushed down, it would release oil from the bottom. He did this to trick his friends into thinking he had the power to calm waves in troubled waters.