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TIL that 98% of adoptions in Japan are of 25-30 year old men

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l7oYV TIL the elephant clock was invented by a 13th century guy called Ismail al Jazzari. This invention was a weight powered water clock in the form of an asian elephant. An elephant driver automaton striked the cymbal and a mechanical bird chirped at a specific time.
ADd44 TIL that Dr. William Marston is the creator of Wonder Woman and the "lie detector"
OGXLX TIL King Henry VIII of England had servants called “Grooms of Stool”, who wiped him clean after he visited the toilet. Gross.
M7oJ8 Til that most olive oil is real and California olive oil manufacturers made up the study about the Mafia and fake olive oil in Italy.
pl6p TIL Jesse Owens, an African-American track athlete who won a gold medal at the 1936 “Nazi Olympics”, said: “Hitler didn’t snub me—it was FDR who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send me a telegram.”