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TIL japanese square watermelons are inedible and produced purely for ornamental reasons

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b94b9 TIL that a rat laughs when you tickle them
xVorw TIL Andrew Myrick, a storekeeper on a Minnesota Native American reservation, told starving natives to get grass if they were hungry. He was found dead on the first day of the Dakota War of 1862 with grass stuffed in his mouth.
xR61 TIL there was a research paper written about the possibility of jerking off 800 guys in a room within 10 minutes
5YaBB TIL that McDonald's used to provide tiny spoons for stirring coffee, but stopped because people were using them to measure doses of cocaine. "McSpoon" even became the term for a dose of cocaine in some cities.
MMYb TIL during the Korean War when the US Marines required extra mortar ammunition they would radio for “Tootsie Rolls”; however a rookie radio operator requested an air drop of actual Tootsie Rolls which ended up saving the company from near starvation.