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TIL that George Washington was a redhead.

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5Y7kk TIL George Clooney had a cameo on South Park in which he provided all the barks, growls, and yips for Sparky, the gay dog in the ‘Big Gay Al’s Big Gay Boat Ride.’
loVDA TIL: Roman busts sometimes had removable "hair" so that you could update it later on with the current fashionable hairstyle!
nWN0G TIL in the Congo Free State soldiers had to provide the severed hand of Congolese they shot as proof they weren’t misusing munition, but in practice the hands became a sort of currency since they allowed soldiers to save bullets, leading to them cutting the hand off living people
pa7A TIL that Israel attempted to bomb American and British civilians in Egypt and blame it on the Muslim Brotherhood in order to destabilize and occupy the country. Israel denied the entire affair for 51 years, but then awarded the Israeli participants in 2005.
ygMe TIL that drowning in fresh water is caused by a different mechanism than drowning in salt water. Fresh water drowning causes cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation, while salt water drowning causes cardiac arrest due to increased blood viscosity and workload on the heart.