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TIL people rip bongs at the office

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EgOKV TIL the USA launched, and failed, an expedition against Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa
8kkX TIL that 15 girls died in Saudi Arabia after the religious police refused to let them leave their burning building because they were not properly dressed.
W7EPN TIL Pythagoras thought beans contained a human soul and fought against their consumption or destruction. One account of his death claims that he would not enter a bean field to escape pursuers, so they killed him.
OoGD1 TIL During the California Gold Rush a Chinese laundry man named John-John washed enough gold dust out of pants cuffs and shirttails of miners to set himself up for life.
4k14o TIL about the candle auction - a method of auction where the end of the auction is signaled by the expiration of a candle flame, which was intended to ensure that no one could know exactly when the auction would end and make a last-second bid.