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TIL the phrase “balls out” has nothing to do with testicles, but rather with early steam engine components.

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VBg48 TIL that the Mexican Botana Dish was created in Detroit in 1975.
64VQ TIL Brandenn Bremmer was a genius–had an IQ of 178, read books at 18 months old, played the piano at age 3, and started college at age 11–who committed suicide at age 14 with no signs of depression, suicide note, or pressure to achieve from his parents
waoE TIL 20,000 American Nazis gathered at Madison Square Garden in 1939 while 80,000 Americans gathered outside in protest
b9gVE TIL a terrier named Igloo traveled to both the North and South Poles in the 1920s as a companion to his human, explorer Admiral Richard Bird. He chased penguins, picked fights with the sled dogs, and had a camel-hair suit made for him to keep him warm. His headstone is shaped like an iceberg.
aRWo TIL that an Ohio judge sentenced a woman to spend 8 hours in the “smelliest, most god-awful place they can find” at a garbage dump, for neglecting her dog. “If you puke, you puke”