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TIL 1 in 5,000 babies are born without an anus opening.

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X0BK6 TIL that in 1920, Major League Baseball banned the spitball, a pitch altered with saliva or other substances, but granted an exception to 17 pitchers, allowing them to continue using it legally until they retired.
aw7lo TIL That when the Pope dies, he is smacked in the head with a gilded silver hammer to make sure he is dead.
G4Vg TIL that school buses are painted yellow because it gets people’s attention faster than any other color and is also well noticeable in bad weather. People detect yellow 1.24 times better than red in the corner of their eyes.
wLj01 TIL Carrie Fisher delivered a cow tongue inside a Tiffany box to a predatory producer who had assaulted her friend. She said, "The next delivery will be something of yours in a much smaller box!"
yVBRl TIL the use of blinding laser weapons was outlawed under the 1995 Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons and prohibited the use of “laser weapons specifically designed, as their sole combat function or as one of their combat functions, to cause permanent blindness to unenhanced vision.”