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TIL Harland Williams, the pee drinking trooper from Dumb and Dumber, created Puppy Dog Pals, a Disney cartoon

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E4Np TIL a group of Mennonite men sprayed anaesthetic through bedroom windows at night, sedating entire families so they could rape the women.
1aY54 TIL that when David Bowie says "get back on it" on The Jean Genie, he's talking to the bass player who has just started playing the chorus one bar too soon. He liked it, so it stayed in the song.
p8LNA TIL About The Kurgan hypothesis. That a group of peoples 6,000 to 8,000 years ago, whose language is now related to 440 others, spread across Europe and parts of Asia. Their word "lox" has survived unchanged for 8,000 years and means/pronounced the same as it is today in English.
rRMQ0 TIL In WWII around 140 Jewish prisoners were employed by the Nazis to forge British pound banknotes for a total value of £300 million ($24 billion in 2020). They were so successful that in 1943 the Bank of England withdrew all denominations above £5, until 1964. All the prisoners survived the war.
N77NE The first black pilot in history Ahmet Ali Çelikten, Ottoman Empire, 1916.