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TIL that the human stomach can dissolve razor blades

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ZY84 TIL Oprah and Roger Ebert once dated, and it was on that date that Ebert gave her the idea of making a syndicated talk show.
BgdYb TIL that in addition to names like “Hope”, “Felicity”, and “Prudence”, Puritans also named their children things like “Jesus-Christ-came-into-the-world- to-save”, “Damned”, and “Fly-fornication”.
1DaV TIL that the year on bottles of wine is the year the grapes were picked, not the year the wine was bottled.
9YAMD TIL that after his career in the NFL, Terry Crews spent a year nearly broke, having to get a job sweeping floors at a factory. After a few small roles, he would eventually get his acting breakthrough in 2002 with “Friday After Next” and the rest is history.
BgbRe TIL in World War I, Russia created the “1st Russian Women’s Battalion of Death” among other all-female battalions in an effort to shame still-hesitant males to fight in the war