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TIL there is a gag gift called "liquid ass" that smells so badly the US military uses it for hyper-realistic combat training for medics to experience corpses or individuals with severe abdominal injuries

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R7Nv7 TIL it's very likely that military-style flails never existed. They are never described in medieval literature or chronicles. The original inventors were not weaponsmiths but illustrators. The smiths who made them from the 16th Century onward were just copying an idea rather than a thing.
awnoM TIL that Australians are entitled by law to a repair/replace/refund on whatever they buy
eyYD TIL that after receiving so much hate from fans, the American Godzilla from the 1998 movie was made to fight Japanese Godzilla. Their fight was the shortest in Godzilla history, with Japanese Godzilla winning in 20 seconds.
v1mkR TIL that, while filming "Polar Bear Family and Me", Gordon Buchanan was forced to sit tight whilst a seemingly hungry polar bear tried to get him by clawing, biting and rocking his protective pod
K8VQ TIL Jodie Foster was born 3 years after her parents divorced… her mother got pregnant when she stopped by her father’s house for child support.