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TIL the U.S.A. is the only country in the world where most boys are circumcised for nonreligious reasons.

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6Ejaw TIL Alcatraz's prison guards created the myths about man eating sharks and deadly waters of San Francisco to discourage prisoners from escaping. There is only one recorded shark fatality in San Francisco in 1959
9DNB TIL of Samuel Whittemore, the oldest known colonial combatant in the American Revolutionary War. At the age of 78, after killing two British soldiers, Samuel was shot in the face, bayoneted numerous times, and left for dead in a pool of blood. Samuel lived another 18 years.
nempr TIL the inventor the saxophone almost died several times as a child, including falling into a cast iron frying pan and drinking vitriolozed water.
jrdX TIL that the observation of a quantum particle can change how it behave not only in the future, but in the past.
9a6B TIL of Thomassons - useless bits of architecture, like stairs that lead nowhere, that unintentionally become ‘art’