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TIL Johnny Cash and his first wife Vivian named their daughter, Roseanne, after Johnny’s nickname for Vivian’s boobs: Rose and Anne

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PraE TIL that it is impossible for a centipede to have 100 legs. They have one pair of legs per body segment, but always an odd number of body segments, allowing for 98 and 102 legs, but not 100.
0DRv TIL that a holocaust denial group offered $50,000 to anyone who could prove that gas chambers were used to intentionally kill people at Auschwitz. They were forced by a judge to pay that money, and an additional $40,000, to Auschwitz survivor Mel Mermelstein who provided proof of that very fact.
mwXv TIL Taser is an acronym for “Thomas A. Swift’s electric rifle”
6K4w TIL : A merchant was sentenced to face a lion in the arena when he was caught selling fake jewels to the Empress, when the cage opened however a chicken walked out, the Emperor then proclaimed that “He practiced deceit and then had it practiced on him”.The merchant was allowed to go home then.
wXVP TIL Many Japanese Yugioh cards were modified (censored) for American versions.