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TIL there's a type of rainbow that's flat called a 'firebow'

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160ED TIL that Martha Stewart did not go to prison for insider trading. She was charged and found guilty of lying to the FBI.
9dP7 TIL a woman tricked doctors into thinking she could give birth to rabbits. She shoved the rabbits into her vagina before ‘birthing’ them
X06ZR TIL of the Wicked Bible (circa 1631) - called such because of a typo omitting the word "not" from the commandment "thou shall NOT commit adultery." Also, in Deuteronomy 5:24, “God’s greatness” is typoed with “God’s great arse.”
5VJMr TIL the sum mass of prey consumed each year by world’s spiders is greater than the mass of all humans on the planet.
kOAK4 TIL: In the 1930s, residents of Munich would take a small side street so they didn't need to render the Nazi salute to the shrine of the Nazis who died in the Beer Hall Putsch. This side road came to be called "Drückebergergasse" or "Shirker's alley"