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TIL That pillows were started around 7000 BC in Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq. You slept on a stone to keep insects from crawling into the holes in your head. This meant they were not originally made for comfort.

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J1aYm TIL Most vinegar you get on your food in fish and chip shops in the UK is fake vinegar. It isn't legally vinegar and can't legally be called vinegar. It is technically a non brewed condiment. Due to being fake vinegar, its actually accidentally halal and vegan friendly
r8O1 TIL that in 1981, a Turkish man shot Pope John Paul II four times but didn’t kill him. After the Pope recovered, he visited the assassin in prison forgave him. The assassin was pardoned at the Pope’s request and 33 years after his crime, he visited Vatican City and laid flowers on the Pope’s tomb.
LabP TIL, aged 12, Margaret Thatcher saved pocket money to help pay for a Jewish girl escaping Nazi Germany, whom her family provided sanctuary during WWII
gr1wD TIL that the "Lloyd's Bank coprolite" is the largest-recorded fossilized piece of human faeces in existence. It is about 1200 years old, 8 inches long, 2 inches wide and was dropped by a Viking who mainly subsisted on meat and grains.
8e75P TIL that there was a secret facility in the Swedish archipelago training seals for the navy during the Second World War. The seals were taught to locate mines, submarines, and torpedoes that had missed their targets.