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TIL the snow in the wizard of oz was pure asbestos.

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rRkMx TIL that scattering of human ashes at Disneyland and Disney World happens so frequently park employees have a special code to report it for cleanup.
KOoZE TIL of John Woods, an Army private who lied his way into becoming the Army's hangman and an officer. He carried out 60-70 executions in two years, several of which he bungled by building the gallows too short, including all ten of the Nuremberg Executions of the Nazi high command.
kOkGB TIL Pope Clement VIII loved coffee: he supposedly tasted the "Muslim drink" [coffee] at the behest of his priests, who wanted him to ban it. "Why, this Satan's drink is so delicious, that it would be a pity to let the infidels have exclusive use of it. We shall fool Satan by baptizing it..."
4XajX TIL: Action figures have been made as far back as the first century. Romans made clay figurines of gladiators.
pYe6A TIL: Banyan merchant is an expression used widely in the Indian Ocean trade to refer to Indian merchants who are clearly distinguished from others, by their clothing, their religious and cultural dietary choices, and the manner in which they conduct trade