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TIL Richard Pryor was bisexual and out to his friends.

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RxMl TIL that Mongolian horse archers, back in 1200 AD, could “slide down the side of their horse to shield their body from enemy arrows, while simultaneously holding their bow under the horse’s chin and returning fire, all at full gallop.” These guys were unreal.
dDvJj TIL when Mentos makers saw a chemistry teacher create a soda geyser several feet high by dropping Mentos into Diet Coke on the Late Show. They devised a consumer misuse campaign encouraging user-generated videos and signing content creators to create a trend that acheive a 20% sales spike.
RA8a TIL that the inventor of the web, Tim Berners-Lee, has one regret: adding the double slash // to URLs. In retrospect, he says, it was totally unnecessary.
4BKa TIL a man’s enormous 12-pound facial tumour could have been treated when he was a teenager, but his mother wouldn’t let him get surgery because she was a Jehovah’s Witness.
59r8 TIL that the name “Pakistan” was devised in 1933 as the acronym for: Punjab, Afghan, Kashmir, Sindh, and BalochiSTAN. Also, in Farsi and Urdu, “Pak” means “clean” and “-stan” means country