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TIL Canadian WWI soldiers had violet privates

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x6V55 TIL that Crispin Glover was replaced as George Mcfly after Back to the Future 1, using an actor with prosthetics of his face, leading him to sue Universal Studios.
epD1k TIL that King's School, Canterbury, is Britain's oldest public school; and is arguably the oldest continuously operating school in the world, since education on the Abbey and Cathedral grounds has been uninterrupted since AD 597.
e07n4 TIL elephant's brain react the same way to humans the way human brains react to puppies. That is they think we are cute.
5xPn TIL A respected medical examiner in Shelby County, Tennessee was found handcuffed to a window guard, wrapped in barbed wire, with a motion-sensitive bomb strapped to his chest and lye burns to his face. Detectives investigating the case concluded that he did it to himself.
4QoN TIL during renovations on his house, a thigh bone was found in Benjamin Franklin’s house. In total, over 1,200 bones were pulled up, making up the remains of 6 children and 4 adults.