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TIL Usain Bolt demands that his ad shoots be done in Jamaica to bring money to his country

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vbxx TIL there was a punishment called “Derby’s dose”, in which “[A] runaway [slave] would be beaten, and salt pickle, lime juice, and bird pepper would be rubbed into their open wounds. Another slave would defecate into the mouth of the miscreant, who would then be gagged for hours.”
AMBx TIL • A fine-quality Persian rug, containing as many as 1 million knots in every 3 square feet, may last as long as 500 years before it wears out.
GAlNg TIL Author Morgan Robertson wrote a book called "The Wreck of the Titan" or "Futility" which, although written 14 years before, had an uncanny number of similarities to the wreck of the Titanic and now shares the names of the submarine that recently imploded.
KOl1R TIL figs are considered an animal product by many vegans. Female wasps crawl into figs, lay their eggs and die. The mother wasp is enzymatically digested by the fig.
kao4 TIL that in 1856, William Palmer, as he stepped onto the gallows to be executed for murder, is said to have looked at the trapdoor and exclaimed, “Are you sure it’s safe?”