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TIL that Grant and Tory from the Mythbusters' B-team are only three years younger than Adam Savage.

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P10Nw TIL that in 1950's and 60's the Canadian government, military and the RCMP used a device called "the fruit machine" to attempt to identify homosexual men in the public service. Subjects were made to view pornography while measurements were taken of pupil diameter, perspiration and pulse.
aw0My TIL in 1926, the US Federal government poisoned alcohol in a effort to end alcohol consumption during Prohibition. By the end of Prohibition, 10,000 Americans died due to alcohol poisoning.
AN0Bx TIL that Napoleon Bonaparte was castrated after death, and his member was purchased by an artifact collector in 1977.
yV0WJ TIL: That a 63-year-old man attempted a cheese heist worth $389,000.
y8QM TIL the Twinkies Woody Harrelson eats in the movie Zombieland were fake, because Harrelson is a vegan