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TIL Abraham Lincoln's corpse was sent on a two-week funeral tour across America, shown openly to thousands. In the course of the trip the body visibly decomposed, bloated, and darkened. In New York City alone, the body was seen by over 150,000 and exposed to the air for 23 hours straight

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GnOg TIL that you need to have your wisdom teeth removed to go to Antarctica
negZG TIL that falconers (and trainers of other birds of prey) will sew the eyelids of a wild caught bird shut, slowly allowing them to reopen to imprint themselves. The reopening process takes anywhere from a week to 40 days depending on the bird’s nature and the skill of the trainer
YxDx TIL that when British warships enter the Thames they are required to present a barrel of rum to the Constable of the Tower (the man in command of the Tower of London) in the ‘Ceremony of the Constables Dues’.
Vgr0 TIL Rocco Siffredi, an Italian porn star, made a commercial for potato chips in which he says “I’ve tried a lot of potatoes, but none are as good as these.” The Italian word for potato is a euphemism for vagina.
j6epj TIL the first computer virus to be written with the purpose of being released in the wild, “Elk Cloner”, was done so in 1982 by a 15 year old high-school student to annoy his friends.