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TIL that the nose in this face ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°), is the clicking noise in African languages.

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OjJ7 TIL that Mark Twain was born shortly after a visit by Halley’s Comet, and he predicted that he would “go out with it”, too. He died the day after the comet returned.
RaPa TIL that Jamie Johnson, the heir to the Johnson and Johnson fortune, made 2 documentaries showing how the 1% live and was sued for it by some of his friends who called him an “idiot” and a “traitor to your class.”
awdLo TIL a man shot himself in the face after the bullet ricocheted off an armadillo he was attempting to kill
9YxLm [TIL] Thebes had a special forces military unit comprised entirely of Homosexual Couples. The belief was that couples on the battlefield would fight their hardest to protect their lovers and not flee for fear of looking weak in front of their significant others.
epD54 TIL that in WW2 the US Army issued manuals on how to perform in drag.