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TIL there is no “e” in the Black Speech of Mordor, because you have to smile when you say it

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nZbW TIL of a homeless man in NYC who would regularly order an expensive dinner at a restaurant and refuse to pay for it in order to be sent to prison where he would receive 3 meals a day and a clean bed. He refused to commit more serious crimes to get longer sentences as he did not want to hurt anyone.
kJaJe TIL that back in the 1940s there was a male-only "Penthouse Club" at the Walt Disney Studios for their top animators, including a rooftop patio where they used to take nude sunbaths. They had to stop when it became known that nuns in the neighboring hospital were peeking at them
D64Y TIL that after Germany discovered the link between smoking and lung cancer, the Nazis initiated a strong anti-tobacco movement. Hitler himself called tobacco “the wrath of the Red Man against the White Man, vengeance for having been given hard liquor.”
mBNO TIL a project aims to restore NYC Jamaica Bay’s once thriving oyster population by creating inviting beds for them out of broken toilets. The oysters could help limit erosion and improve water quality by naturally filtering pollutants out.
wow61 TIL the word "sneeze" was originally spelled "fnese." The spelling shifted in the 15th century due to people misinterpreting the F as a long S.