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TIL Famed dentist Painless Parker (who wore a necklace of teeth) & his Dental Circus lured naive patients by promising that the 50c extraction would be painless, or he’d pay $5. Screams of agony were drowned by a brass band while the audience was distracted, enjoying contortionists & dancing women.

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4lAN TIL Pope John XII died whilst enjoying an adulterous sexual encounter outside Rome at the hands of an outraged husband.
Zpx4 TIL: That one of “The Cousins” from Breaking Bad, was actually in jail for gang related crimes.
9YDMB TIL of the Nipah virus, which has a 50-75% mortality rate and is typically contracted by drinking something contaminated with bat pee
KgPQ TIL in 2004 a man was found naked and beaten behind a Burger King. With dissociative amnesia, and despite multiple attempts including DNA, scientists have yet to determine the identity of this man who calls himself Benjaman Kyle.
e0jpL TIL the 2011 hit "We Are Young" by Fun was conceived during lead singer Nate Ruess's worst drinking night of all time, which ended with him vomiting in a cab.