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TIL a pollination technique invented by a 12 year old slave is the reason Vanilla is commonly available today

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r9Py TIL Grandpa Lou in “Rugrats” has a space-themed porn stash.
Y7Mnx TIL of Mrs Chippy, a ship's cat aboard the Endurance during Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition. After Shackleton drove the ship into an ice-locked position, stranding everyone on the ice, he ordered the cat and several dogs shot because they were "weak".
XEwJR TIL that MI6 agents were encouraged to use semen as invisible ink, with the motto “every man his own stylo”. The practice only stopped after concerns were raised about the masturbatory habits of the agents.
8arGZ TIL of Craig Williamson, a Florida man who was watching "Unsolved Mysteries" and recognized himself as the missing person in Colorado. He claimed he was beaten in a robbery and developed amnesia. He was later reunited with his wife whom he had no memory of. Police are skeptical of the story.
wojgJ TIL The first recorded steel cage wrestling match happened between Jack Bloomfield and Count Rossi in Atlanta, Georgia June 25th, 1937. The cage was a circular chicken wire structure.