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TIL showers were invented as a deliberately unpleasant treatment to cure the insane

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nW66o TIL Sasanian King Shapur II was the only ruler crowned in utero. The story goes that the was crown was placed upon his mother's womb while she was pregnant.
grawW TIL that Mama Cass Elliot and Keith Moon both died in not only the same apartment but also the same bed.
QJ11L TIL about the Nazino Tragedy where 6,000 people were deported from the Soviet Union to an island where there was no food, shelter, or water. Within 13 weeks, over 4,000 died or disappeared and signs of cannibalism was present on some of the bodies.
5Ydwk TIL in 2018 the Domino’s in Russia offered up to 100 free pizzas every year for 100 years if a customer got the Domino’s logo tattooed visibly on their body. Initially intended to last a month the promotion proved to be so popular Domino’s ended it after a week with 350 accepted winners.
Yp7QP TIL that the Nintendo character Kirby was named after John Kirby, the legal counsel for Nintendo who helped them win their lawsuit with Universal Studios in 1982. John Kirby was gifted a sailboat Christened the “Donkey Kong” and given exclusive rights to name any boat he owned “Donkey Kong.”