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TIL that Toto from Wizard of Oz was paid more than the munchkins were

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OJOY TIL American soldiers would wrap suicide attackers from the Moro Muslim group in the Philippines in pig skin to make them unfit to go to heaven and deter potential future attacks by them
N7v9J Today I learned that testing to qualify an n95 is done by putting a persons head in a hood and then spraying something sweet or bitter into the hood and using the senses of smell and taste to verify a proper seal.
PYyQe TIL that during the tablecloth scene from the Grinch, Jim Carrey was supposed to pull everything off of the table, but he accidentally pulled the tablecloth clean off without knocking anything over, so he went back and improvised knocking everything down.
4ZRb TIL that in pre-Christian Greek and Roman cultures, suicide was permitted, if not condoned, and often seen as an act of free will that could even be heroic.
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