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TIL that Q-tips were originally called "Baby Gays"

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NX7BN TIL the ancient city of Hieropolis in modern Turkey was thought to be the location of a Gate to Hell by the Romans. This was likely due to toxic levels of CO2 from gas vents that killed animals with noses close to the ground. The vents are bricked up today for tourists' safety.
9ABQ TIL Iraq still uses bomb detecting devices that are nothing more than a modern day dowsing rod and have been proven fake. They were purchased for around 85 million.
pG5p TIL scientific evidence confirms Australian Aboriginal’s oral history myths about the formation of their land’s geography from up to 12,000 years ago.
69WEZ TIL There are names for each phase of the lifecycle of a single hair.
pYpO TIL that in 1990 an unemployed French physicist attempted a one-man invasion of an island and was arrested while reloading his gun on a bench by the island’s volunteer constable.