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TIL of Cake Man, a Danish tradition to bake a birthday cake man and let the birthday girl (or boy) slit its throat while the other children scream.

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696Em TIL the planet Neptune isn't deep blue, and looks closer in color to Uranus; the correct shades of the planets have been confirmed in a study published in September 2023
QNL4a TIL San Francisco experienced a major earthquake in 1906 that caused the San Andreas Fault to slip. It was followed by massive fire that led to 4 square miles being leveled, 3,000 deaths and 250,000 left homeless. The sound was described as a noise "like the roar of 10,000 lions"
EGNW TIL that a guy sold his imaginary friend, named Jon Malipieman, on ebay for over 3,000 dollars
8ayva TIL During WWII, the Amsterdam zoo hid around 250 people from the Nazis during the Nazi occupation of Holland.
W7JbY TIL that the son of a soldier who was killed by the Viet Cong guerrilla shot in the infamous 1968 Saigon Execution photo went on to become a Rear Admiral in the US Navy.