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TIL that the State of Kansas is literally flatter than a pancake.

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b6MKp TIL a patent application was filed for a butt-kicking machine comprising of a seat with a hole in the center, which the user sits upon with his or her posterior exposed to a butt-kicking mechanism located under the seat, which kicks the user in the posterior. This is US Patent Appl. No. 10/977,894.
l0Y5 TIL Michael Faraday, the brilliant scientist, had a speech impediment and was one day beaten by the headmaster for it in school, he left school that day never to return
nEkb TIL In 1965 at age 90 and with no heirs Jeanne Calment sold her apartment to lawyer André-François Raffray on a contingency contract. Raffray, aged 47 agreed to pay her a monthly sum of 2,500 francs until she died. Raffray ended up paying Calment >$180,000; more than double the apartment’s value.
4Nlg TIL a pregnant employee at a Christian school was fired for having premarital sex. The school subsequently offered a job to the man who had gotten her pregnant.
KYXj9 TIL that there is an island between Spain and France whose administration alternates every 6 months between both nations.