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TIL Instead of Xmas trees, Catalonia uses a CagaTio (translated: Sh*t Log) that you feed and beat until it poops out presents. And even more there are statues of pooing men (Caganers) you place as decorations into the nativity

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Oown1 TIL of an early variation of the jockstrap, called the "suspensory". It was developed in the 1820s as way to lift the scrotum away from the saddle. General Custer's suspensory is on display at the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Museum.
P8pO TIL Karl Marx believed capitalism had the best chance of saving the world (but worried it was vulnerable to being overtaken by corporate fascism) which is why he wrote about it so much.
1vVV TIL Steve Wozniak submitted so many Tetris high scores to Nintendo Power Magazine that the writers refused to print them. To bypass this, he starting making submissions with his name spelled backwards.
XE0M8 A single Boeing 777 engine delivers twice the horsepower of all the Titanic's
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