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TIL that the pinky promise originally meant is the person doesn’t keep their promise their pinky finger would be chopped off.

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eMa4 TIL the parents of the “Charlie Bit Me” video have admitted the only reason they uploaded the video to YouTube was because the size of the video file was too big to be send by email to their family.
WkG9Y TIL over 20% of the documented serial killers in the world have come from a 200-mile radius around Seattle, Washington. There has been a total of 277 serial killers in Washington state with an average number of serial killings of 7.44 per 1 million people.
jNeeE TIL that Andrew Johnson Was Drunk During His Inauguration.
rjV0 TIL that Harry Whittington, the man Dick Cheney shot in the face in a hunting accident, revealed in 2010 that Cheney has neither publicly nor privately apologized to Whittington for the shooting.
e0LJk TIL about one in every 1500 people have something called Voluntarily Piloerection - the ability to consciously give themselves goosebumps. The phenomenon both perplexes and intrigues neurophysiologists by defying conventional understanding of how the unconscious nervous system operates.