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TIL: In 2013, forty year old Heath Campbell strolled into a New Jersey courthouse wearing full Nazi regalia and asked for visitation rights to his toddler claiming “Prisoners get to see their children, murderers get to see their children. What’s so horrible about being a Nazi?”.

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M7gW7 TIL in the 18th century many prominent voices were concerned by an 'epidemic' affecting young people whereby they were spending too much time reading books. It was diagnosed as 'a dangerous disease' called 'reading rage, reading fever, reading mania or reading lust.'
vP5m4 TIL about Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump. A cliff in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains was used for 5,500 years to run buffalo off it to their death. A pile of bones 30 feet tall and hundreds of feet long can be found at the base of the cliff.
KObQE TIL that the crazy colors and patterns you see when you rub your eyes are called "PHOSPHENES." Researchers believe that this "biophotonic light" actually comes from inside of our eyes in the same way that fireflies emit light.
nR1G TIL that the character who sings the famous opera song “I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General” was said to be modeled on the real-life Sir Garnet Wolseley. Rather than being offended by the caricature, Wolseley would sing the song to amuse his friends.
b6BpE TIL most so-Called “Medieval Torture Devices” are fake actually made up by hoaxers, showmen, and con artists in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries