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TIL that high-ranking Japanese women hired servants called heoibikuni to take the blame when they farted

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Eg5lP TIL Billionaire Chuck Feeney donated over $8 Billion to different causes supporting health science and improving the human condition. He spent his last days in a rented apartment in San Francisco with remaining assets of $2 Million.
Xdo8 TIL Arland Williams sacrificed his life to save 5 other passengers from the icy waters of the Potomac on Air Flight Florida 90
dr47 TIL In 1914, an ad ran in a London newspaper for a Trans-Antarctic exploration, the ad read “MEN WANTED: FOR HAZARDOUS JOURNEY. SMALL WAGES, BITTER COLD, LONG MONTHS OF COMPLETE DARKNESS, CONSTANT DANGER, SAFE RETURN DOUBTFUL. HONOUR AND RECOGNITION IN CASE OF SUCCESS. SIR ERNEST SHACKLETON”.
QNkWM TIL that some people who think they have severe allergies with runny noses are actually leaking brain fluid through their nose.
Ve84 TIL Colorado’s two tallest mountains are so close to each other in height that fans of each mountain would repeatedly pile up rocks to try and make their preferred mountain taller.