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TIL Laverne's & Shirley's "schlemiel and schlimazel" are real words with real meanings

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vPpD7 TIL about pishtacos, an Andean Indigenous legend. People feared Spanish missionaries (pishtacos), believing the missionaries were killing people for fat, thereafter oiling church bells to make them especially sonorous.
xJGB TIL That a legendary killer camel terrorized 19th century Arizonians by stomping them to death. Oh, and he had a rotting skeleton tied to his back as he prowled the Southwest.
b9RkE TIL in 2006 three men tried to steal a koala from a Queensland, Australia zoo. They gave up after the koala “scratched the shit out of them”, so they stole a crocodile instead.
VMyB8 TIL of Tolstoy's love for Lincoln. "Of all the great national heroes and statesmen of history Lincoln is the only real giant. ... [H]e was a Christ in miniature, a saint of humanity, whose name will live thousands of years in the legends of future generations."
LkEgr TIL that women's farts generally smell far worse than men's because they contain remarkably higher levels of hydrogen sulfide.