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TIL that almost 100,000 Vietnamese "volunteers" served on the western front during WW1

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EZB7 TIL that the first scripted inter-racial kiss on US television (Star Trek) was meant to be filmed with and without the kiss. Shatner and Nichols deliberately flubbed every take of the shot without the kiss so that they could not be used.
kOXx5 TIL a friar is a monk without a monastery
Vjlk TIL a 15 year old Roman Emperor named Heliogabalus, was a notorious prankster. He would get his party guests black out drunk and then dump them into a bedroom full of toothless leopards, lions and bears. He also created the 1st known ‘whoopee cushions’ using inflated animal bladders.
Y7W5r TIL Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor, was so obsessed with immortality that he drank ‘elixirs’ made with mercury, sought out virgin blood, and sent entire fleets to find mythical islands of eternal life.”
ep7n5 TIL Scientists studying visual perception superglued patches on cuttlefish to Velcro 3D glasses on them. The cuttlefish kept the glasses on long enough for the research team to determine that they have stereo vision (like humans).