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TIL Ben Franklin wrote an essay titled “Fart Proudly,” an entire essay about flatulence.

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OGBEX TIL The Vuoristorata, a wooden rollercoaster at the Linnanmäki amusement park in Helsinki, Finland, is operated by a brakeperson standing at the rear of the train. Designed by Valdemar Lebech and built in 1950, it was the last rollercoaster in the world built using side friction technology.
aw8LN TIL to use a hidden, already installed, Windows app that allows DVD quality recordings, of ANYTHING you hear over your computer speakers! This includes Youtube, Spotify, iPod, karaoke etc...
KOwXE TIL that there is an underground town in the Australian outback called Coober Pedy. Half of its population live below ground to escape the area's hellish temperatures.
xoMD TIL : A judge in India acquitted rapists in 1994 with a ruling that they were Brahmins and a Brahmin wouldn’t rape a Dailt.
MePLm TIL The Talmud rules that an unanimous verdict by the Sanhedrin (Jewish court) must be thrown out and the defendant must be exonerated! The alleged guilt of the defendant is immaterial and the defendant walks away a free man.