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TIL dick meant ‘a person of questionable character’ long before it was a slang word for the penis

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nXeP TIL: Fry (Futurama), Stimpy (Ren & Stimpy), the Honey Nut Cheerios Bee, and the Red M&M are all voiced by the same actor.
P7Vn TIL that Joan of Arc was (technically) condemned to death for cross-dressing. The Church made her pledge to no longer wear men’s clothing, but her jailers only let her have men’s clothing to wear; breaking her pledge was defined as heresy, giving the Inquisition its excuse to burn her
Me98b TIL most of the world's Botox is manufactured in Ireland. A couple of pounds/kilos of the raw botulinum neurotoxin used to make it is enough to kill everyone in the world, multiple times over.
nejAB TIL that in 2006, a man tried to sell New Zealand on E-Bay. The bid reached $3,000 before E-Bay officials shut it down.
7O1b TIL a chimpanzee that was socialized to humans since birth could log onto a computer to look at pictures, watch television using a remote control, brush his teeth, feed hay to his owner’s horses, water plants and learned the schedule of passing ice cream trucks.