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TIL that they used shaved bears dressed in female clothing and wearing a wig to recreate the myth of a pigfaced women at carnavals

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looZB TIL Euronymous from a band called Mayhem found one of the band members dead after committing suicide, took photographs, allegedly cannibalized him and made necklaces with his skull; later on he was stabbed to death by another band member
6g1m TIL Before Google launched Gmail, ‘G-Mail’ was the name of a free email service offered by Garfield’s website.
W71Xo TIL of Rupert Trimmingham, a Black US soldier serving in WW2 who in 1944 wrote a letter to an Army-run magazine about being refused service in a Louisiana restaurant while German PoWs were served inside, sparking support from other soldiers and contributing to the 1948 integration of the US military
5LOB TIL Little Caesar’s makes only a .90 cents profit on a 5.00 hot and ready pizza. $3.50 goes to the ingredients and 60 cents for overhead
voM7 TIL of Dr. Howard Jones, who in 1978 was forced into retirement due to rigid age restrictions for surgeons at Johns Hopkins. Rather than end his medical career, Jones moved to Virginia, where in 1981 at the age of 70, he performed the first IVF case in the U.S. He died in 2015 at the age of 104.