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TIL that in the 1970s head transplants were possible

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j6BDj TIL Romans wiped their butts with a sea sponge on a stick that they kept in a bucket of salt water or vinegar.
PXlJ TIL a Baku is a creature from Chinese folklore that can be summoned to devour nightmares. However if he remains hungry after eating one’s nightmares, he may also devour their hopes and desires.
LQL0m TIL that in Tiger Woods 99 for the PlayStation 1, in the first 100,000 copies of the game had an Easter egg that a developer snuck in when put into a computer, it contained a DAT. file that would play the first ever South Park short made. These copies were later recalled by EA
QJNme TIL that GSG 9, the elite German police unit, completed 1500 missions between 1972-2003, in which they only used their weapons five times
yVgGw TIL in 2009 a Maryland wastewater treatment plant was found to be inhabited by over 100,000,000 orb-weaving spiders, the largest recorded aggregation in history. The entire facility was covered in dense sheets and volumes of webbing, leading to it being nicknamed it the "Back River Arachnotopia".