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pG8G TIL the whoopee cushion was invented by a 14-year old Roman Emperor, who used it frequently on guests. He was assassinated by the time he was 18.
8eM9V TIL about Typhoid Mary, an Irish cook caused two lethal outbreaks of typhoid fever, by being a healthy carrier of the disease
Dj6g TIL Logitech is called Logicool in Japan.
X0kkk TIL in 2017, a man in Soka, Japan was arrested for stalking and assaulting young girls. He told the police that he copied the plan from the manga "Geiger Counter" where girls were assaulted by a man imitating a utility worker. Police requested that the author be more considerate in future works.
grWw4 TiL that the spiral shell of a Nautilus cephalopod isn't full of its body, but a system of air chambers that act like buoyancy chambers on a submarine!