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TIL Jeff Bezos was Time Magazines Man of the Year in 1999

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x6Eng TIL the earliest known use of prosthetics goes back to ancient Egypt and Iran, circa 3000 BCE.
59wk TIL the whoopee cushion was invented by Elagabalus, a 14-year-old Roman Emperor who often used it at dinner parties. He was assassinated at the age of 18.
j6P0j TIL A Missouri Christian school's staff were charged with child abuse, in part, for punishing misbehaving children in pits of cow manure
8aGRb TIL In Japan, a festival called Kanamara Matsuri, or 'Festival of the Steel Phallus' celebrates the defeat of a vagina demon by an iron penis.
dLgr TIL fewer than 7% of all wars were the result of religious differences or were religiously motivated