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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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OgGX TIL that all those Facebook pages with sick kids, wounded soldiers, lost babies or puppies about to be put down are all scams making their owners thousands of dollars.
xV1E1 TIL NASA astronauts must learn Russian to be considered fully mission capable
LkAlV TIL that the middle finger is offensive because the finger represents a penis, and the curled fingers around it represent the testicles. By flipping someone off, you are offering them a phallic gesture.
LQv1Q TIL In 2012 a British man named Wesley Carrington bought a metal detector and within 20 minutes found gold from the Roman Age worth £100,000.
5VAGB TIL that shortly before or after the armistice of World War I, all 22 monarchs of the German Empire abdicated or stepped down