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TIL Raw Oysters Are Still Alive When You Eat Them

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N78aM TIL: Andrew Johnson, who became president of the USA when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, owned slaves during the civil war even after Lincoln issued his emancipation proclamation.
MPdb TIL in the 1989 film *Back to the Future Part II" screenwriter Bob Gale wanted the future to seem as improbable as possible, so the long time baseball fan has the Chicago Cubs as the 2015 World Series Champions!…The Cubs who haven’t won the World Series in 107 years have 7/1 odds to win it all.
16RwP TIL flowers have glands
wn46 TIL that there was a 41 year old swedish man whose christmas tradition was to travel to a city 107 miles away from his, to then put his penis inside other peoples mail drop and yell “come and smell on a christmas sausage”
R7Op8 TIL that the mountain K2 (the 2nd highest in the world) was named such as a placeholder, literally "the 2nd peak in the Karakoram mountain range". it stuck because the mountain is so remote that no one else had given it a name.