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TIL It is thought that the first vibrator may have been made by Cleopatra, by filling a tube with bees.

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x6rgB TIL Jerald terHorst was Gerald Ford's press secretary for only month. He resigned after Ford granted Nixon a pardon, which he found especially unconscionable in light of Ford's refusal to pardon draft dodgers during the Vietnam War
0XP5 TIL that the auditory and visual hallucinations along with many other symptoms of acute carbon monoxide poisoning are probably the cause of haunted houses and ghost stories.
nlN9 TIL in 1944 by a huge coincidence ,a crossword puzzle was printed with answers all containing D-Day operation “code names”, which sent MI-5 into a panic thinking their invasion plans had been discovered.
d8ALB TIL about the Tunguska event, an asteroid 'impact' that took place in Siberia in 1908. Early estimates suggested that upwards 15 MT of energy were released, but there were no confirmed fatalities.
Wd4o TIL between the 1940’s and 70’s Harvard took nude photos of each entering freshman student