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TIL: Worm-like amphibians called caecilians will eat the fatty skin of their mothers shortly after birth

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VB7mB TIL George Carlin’s 1972 “Seven Dirty Words” routine (“shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, tits”) led to a 1978 Supreme Court case affirming FCC power to regulate indecent broadcasts. Carlin defended “tits” as too harmless for the list, joking it sounded like a snack food.
JY0BB TIL that Hitler was frustrated that Himmler was performing archeological studies in Germany, as he was worried that they would show the world that “Aryans” lived in mud huts while other civilizations were more technologically advanced
JYAE8 TIL that nudists refer to non-nudists as “Textiles”
eppd4 TIL ‘Operation bodyguard’ was used in WW2, a combination of inflatable tanks, phoney insignias, fake radio transmissions, dummy paratroopers and even feeding faulty information to mislead spies. These efforts helped delude Germany into believing Calais would be the site of the D-day landings.
7rvXp TIL Idi Amin, dictator and commonly known as the "Butcher of Uganda", reportedly boasted that he kept the decapitated heads of political enemies in his freezer, although he said that human flesh was generally "too salty" for his taste.