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TIL of the town of Ixonia, Wisconsin. It was formed when the town of Union was split into two new towns in 1846; residents couldn’t agree on a name, so Ixonia was chosen by drawing letters at random

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gr9PD TIL that an ancient phallus (20cm-long, 3cm-wide ) was unearthed in Hohle Fels Cave near Ulm in the Swabian Jura. It is thought to be the earliest "sex toy"
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LkmR0 TIL in 1998 more than half of Icelanders believed in elves.
nWB6d TIL that convicted Texas fraudster, Billie Sol Estes, claimed that while Vice President, Lyndon B. Johnson ordered him to kill Henry Marshall, a USDA official, because he feared that he would expose their link to each other.