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TIL the world was ending in 1806 because someone wrote “Christ is coming” on eggs and stuffed them back into the hen.

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kGAe TIL the producer of the song “I put a spell on you” brought in ribs and chicken and got everybody drunk. Then went on to say “… I don’t even remember making the record.”
b91dQ TIL of the Nazino affair - the mass deportation of 6,000 "socially harmful" people to Nazino Island in the Soviet Union in May 1933. They were abandoned with only flour for food, and little in the way of tools, clothing, or shelter, and those who attempted to leave were killed by armed guards.
R7BY6 TIL the US Gemini space capsule had to be redesigned because 14 of the 16 astronauts didn't fit in it. The original design relied so heavily on input from Mercury astronaut 'Gus' Grissom, who was 5' 6", that it was nicknamed the "Gusmobile."
VgeG TIL that Taco Bell will start making the “Cool Ranch Dorito’s Locos Tacos” as early as next week
Rdm8 TIL that Art Spiegelman, the creator of Maus (a Pulitzer Prize winning anthropomorphic comic about Nazi concentration camps) also created the Garbage Pail Kids.