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TIL Over 20 million American's live in trailers

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GY0jN TIL X-Men movie director Bryan Singer banned Comic Books on set because he worried that bringing comics on set might get in the way of the "three-dimensional characters" he was trying to portray on screen.
R7y74 TIL The Hudson Bay Company sold land comprising about a quarter of the continent to Canada in 1869 for $1.5 million. The inhabiting indigenous peoples were handed over to Canada like "a flock of sheep".
5Ybwk TIL that NYC once had a "Divorce Coercion Gang" made up of Ultra Orthodox Jews who would kidnap and torture Jewish men who were refusing to divorce their wives
nWkK7 TIL that although we get a condition called hemorrhoids (or piles), we are already born with 3 hemorrhoids.
OoQ5R TIL that anatomist Antonio Valsalva sometimes tasted the fluids of cadavers he performed autopsies on. Quote: "Gangrenous pus does not taste good...leaving the tongue tingling unpleasantly for the better part of the day"