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TIL Some Civil War ships used 500 pound cotton bales for armor.

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5VKEr TIL of Joe Arridy who was a 23-year-old man with an IQ score of 46 and the mind of a six-year-old who was wrongfully convicted and executed in 1939. He did not understand the meaning of the gas chamber, telling the warden "No, no, Joe won't die". He smiled while being taken to the gas chamber.
R58y4 TIL that rabies treatment is only 4 shots in the arm, not 21 shots in the stomach! And it's been that way for 40+ years
OoG7 TIL that an elderly woman’s uterus fell out of her, she then proceeded to push it back up inside her and lodged a potato to hold up it up, a few weeks later the potato sprouted inside her
ly7a TIL: The Japanese had a negative view of antidepressant until a marketing plot renamed depression as “a cold of the soul”. After, the sale of antidepressant increased 6 folds.
EgGj0 TIL Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins is the owner and president of the National Wrestling Alliance(NWA)