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TIL The “X” in X-Ray was just a random letter because Wilhelm Roentgen didn’t know what it was.

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Brp9L TIL about proffesional French "flatulist" Joseph Pujol, aka Le Pétomane, who discovered as a young man that he could suck air into his anus and fart on command. He was the highest earning French entertainer of his time.
LkPlQ TIL pornstar Mia Khalifa who was born in Lebanon, was actually raised as a very conservative Catholic.
vWjK TIL British spies stopped using semen as invisible ink because it began to smell if it wasn’t fresh.
QNKPE TIL that the official Canadian keyboard layout (CSA) has a snow mode. The key is equivalent to Control key in other layouts.
6ExNw TIL there was an unmade Seinfeld episode called The Bet. Its plot was Elaine buying a gun for protection but the cast and director hated it saying "guns aren't funny". It was the ninth episode put into production before being abandoned.