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TIL that bacon has enough energy to melt metal

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699nm TIL there was disagreement over the danger of black widow spider bites until a 1933 experiment where professor Allan Blair allowed himself to be bitten. Blair also hoped to determine whether multiple bites would build immunity, but the first bite proved so painful that he decided against it.
YprGv TIL that Steven Spielberg bought and donated to the Academy Awards two Oscars that were being auctioned privately. He paid $578,000 for Bette Davis’ Best Actress Oscar for the 1938 movie “Jezebel,” and $607,500 for Clark Gable’s Best Actor Oscar for 1934’s “It Happened One Night.”
8JNG TIL General Motors pays its CEO more than it pays in US taxes
6mNX TIL that in 1645, the French governor of Haiti imported over 1.600 prostitutes and sent them to the pirate haven of Tortuga in order to calm the pirates down a bit.
4k6eR TIL A Nigerian city Igbo-Ora has such a high amount of identical twins to the point where there is an annual festival celebrating twins, with over 1,000 pairs of them in attendance