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TIL that the original Pinocchio was an incredibly dark story written by an author who hated children

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E1olX TIL of the Sour Toe Cocktail. a drink garnished with an actual human toe that has been dehydrated and preserved in salt, which originally belonged to a miner who had it amputated in the 1920s. It was accidentally swallowed in 1980 but since then seven more have been donated.
0Yn5 TIL that two Japanese sled dogs survived alone in Antarctica for 11 months
mJMP TIL Thomas Edison did not invent the light bulb. A Canadian by the name of Henery Woodward did and sold Edison the patent, Edison simply made a few minor tweaks to the invention and stole all the credit.
xwZk TIL that nobody other than its owners really know who owns IKEA. Parts of it are owned by multiple shell corporations, and many of the stores themselves are technically owned by a non-profit charitable organization and thus do not pay taxes on their income.
jNJea TIL Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev traveled .02 seconds into the future