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TIL one of the only great white sharks to do relatively well in captivity was intentionally culled for safety reasons after 10 days. The aquarium sold out tickets for the public to see the shark before it was killed.

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EgPE0 TIL tobacco enemas were once used to resuscitate drowning victims, as well as to treat an array of maladies, including headaches, hernias, respiratory ailments, and abdominal cramps. This gave rise to the phrase "blowing smoke up (one's) ass."
Y7PnG TIL The former Confederate President Jefferson Davis met a crowd of 7,000 cheering people when he came to Montreal, Canada. Montreal had been a safe haven for Confederates during the Civil War and some Canadians had supported the Confederacy out of fear the Union might invade Canada.
Memj7 TIL when a ptition for the decrimnalization of all consensual relations between adults and minors below the age of fifteen was addressed to the French parliment in 1977, it was signed by such intellectuals as Michel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Roland Barthes and Simone de Beauvoir.
Eg6X7 TIL Since according to Quantum mechanics particles can be/are delocalized in space there is a non-zero chance that your crush is kissing you right now and also a non-zero chance that she/he is kissing everyone on this planet.
6EAOQ TIL Between 100,000 and 200,000 people lived in Teotihuacan around 600 A.D., making it one of the world’s largest cities, filled with single- and multifloor apartment compounds. The ethnic identity of Teotihuacan’s inhabitants is not known and no writing system has been discovered there