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TIL back in the 1700s, doctors would literally blow smoke up people’s asses to resuscitate them

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PWEE TIL of The Hole which is a place of confinement where Scientology executives are held against their will.
8aOv8 TIL There is a Virtual Museum of Soviet Repression in Belarus. It covers a part of Belarusian history which is mainly excluded from current Belarusian official historiography by presenting recordings of inhabitants who report on their personal experiences with Repression during the Soviet time
v1Kdx TIL that anti-margarine Senator Gordon Roselip incorrectly identified margarine as butter in a blind taste test. His wife later confessed that she had been feeding him margarine and telling him that it was butter.
b9LKQ TIL That the mini-series Shogun (1980) is the most watched show ever on NBC. It was so popular that restaurants and theaters reported a decrease in business for the week it aired.
oBRGL TIL the first Space Shuttle was to be named "Constitution", but after a major letter writing campaign by fans of Star Trek, its was renamed to "Enterprise".