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TIL Etsy sold pills that supposedly allowed people to poop glitter

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56Jp TIL British Matinee Idol Dirk Bogarde was painting in France when he realised the field in which he had set up was littered with children’s skulls. They turned out to have died in a WW2 bombing raid he himself had ordered years earlier.
NDbE TIL that hitting a punching bag does not produce a cathartic effect: It increases rather than decreases subsequent aggression.
X0MDP TIL that there is genetic evidence that Polynesians and Native Americans interacted over 800 years ago.
69pPQ TIL that in the 1800s, people believed that tomatoes were poisonous, until one man ate an entire basket in public to prove them wrong.
ed45 TIL that, during the 1960s, many black civil rights protesters from Detroit were ‘diagnosed’ with schizophrenia (due to their 'hostile’ and 'aggressive’ behavior) and confined to asylums. Some protesters were locked up for more than thirty years and died in custody