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Today I learned you can shit out your mouth 🤢💩

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e0gM6 TIL a tiny English village twinned itself with Paris after writing to the Mayor of Paris proposing a twinning, receiving no reply, assuming it was fine, and so put up road signs declaring it official.
x6MD5 TIL during WWII, the U.S. developed bat bombs, attaching napalm to hibernating Mexican free-tailed bats to ignite Japanese cities. Tested in 1942-43, the project caused accidental fires in US military camps but was canceled in 1944 for the atomic bomb
7reer TIL Kintsugiis the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with precious metals. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.
69pO8 TIL that when Catholic forces fought the Cathar heresy in 1209, a town was captured which was populated by both Cathars and Catholics. Unable to tell the two groups apart, the Catholic military commander allegedly said "God will know His own" and had them all slaughtered indiscriminately.
EgoAP TIL there will be a total solar eclipse in Dunedin NZ, on July 22 2028: Maximum at 16:17:17, and totality duration 2m 52s