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TIL that Boston Corbett, the man who found and shot John Wilkes Booth, was completely insane from handling mercury as a hatter; this led to him castrating himself with a pair of scissors.

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VMDa4 TIL when Sharon Tate was murdered by the Manson Family in 1969, Roman Polanski briefly suspected Bruce Lee of having committed the murder, due to a pair of eyeglasses found at the crime scene followed by a comment Bruce Lee made to Roman Polanski about how he had lost his own eyeglasses.
loW0B TIL that every dog nose is unique, just like a fingerprint.
OG0R TIL that the patterns seen when taking hallucinogenic drugs are actually created by the arrangement of cells and interlinking of nerves in the eye and brain
b9rB7 TIL that in the past, the natives of Tonga would cut off finger tips and offer them to the Gods. They did this to cure a sick relative. This resulted in a severe shortage of finger tips.
Dm6e TIL that it’s possible to sail in a straight line from Pakistan to Siberia without ever touching land.