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TIL that Viagra works on cut flowers, doubling their shelf life while making them stand up straight

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R4v9 TIL- There was an all black regiment in WWI that the Germans feared so much they called them the “Harlem Hellfighters”. The never lost an inch of ground and none of them was ever captured.
E0YW TIL Ferrari engines are musically engineered to sound perfect by utilizing 3rd and 6th harmonics on the air intake, like an organ or flute
VMEP0 TIL the former dictator of the Central African Republic, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, forced the nation's school children to buy expensive uniforms from a company he owned. When the children protested, he had 100 of them executed as an example.
R5RG8 TIL a superiority complex is a psychological defense mechanism that develops over time to help a person cope with feelings of inferiority
xVZ91 TIL that on the island of Melanesia, natives there reenact US military parades and made a fake runway with fake airplanes to pray for the return of a US soldier by the name of John Frum so that he could bring them cargo filled with industrial blessings such as medicine, guns, and canned goods.