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TIL the Australian Boab tree is so large and hollow that they were once used as temporary holding cells for Aboriginal prisoners

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nemlB TIL Zach Galifianakis pays the rent of an 87-year-old lady who used to live at the laundromat he used before he was famous and he sometimes takes her to his film premieres.
E1KXp TIL the ‘Balloon Man’ had constipation since he was 2 and died with over 40lbs of feces in his colon. It’s 8ft long and currently preserved at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia
WkO8L TIL that the actual name of Nazi variation of the Swastika symbol is Hakenkreuz
wo6P8 TIL that in 1845, Sir John Franklin's Arctic expedition aboard HMS Erebus and Terror vanished. The ships were discovered over 170 years later, and researchers believe lead poisoning from canned food and poor water filtration contributed to the crew’s fate
Wk1dL TIL the reason coffee and tea were originally served on saucers was so you could pour the hot drink into the saucer, thus cooling it faster, and drink from it. This practice was used as a metaphor by G. Washington to T. Jefferson for why the US has a Senate.