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TIL that blowing smoke up your ass used to be a common cure for many ailments

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wn86 TIL there is a rare disorder where a woman bleeds through her eyes during menstrual periods.
9Y0Br TIL about George Smith, a US test pilot who ejected from his plane at Mach 1.05 (777mph) and survived!
BrlXb TIL two girls, an 11 year old and a 12 year old, brought kitchen knives, pocket knives, and a pizza cutter to school in order to "sacrifice" classmates and get closer to Satan.
XXEk TIL there is a 19 km long “blob” of unusual black algae that is floating in the arctic ocean between Russia and Alaska. Scientists have not been able to determine the species.
G5Vg TIL Poisoning the well is a rhetorical device where adverse information about a target is preemptively presented to an audience, with the intention of discrediting or ridiculing everything that the target person is about to say