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TIL the infamous shock video "2 Girls 1 Cup" was originally sold as a DVD titled "Hungry B*tches". The "vomit" in the movie was just food the actors had chewed and spit-out without swallowing, and film's director has stated in court that the supposed excrement they consume was just ice cream.

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R55Lj TIL In the 4th and 5th century BC, Hippocrates was the first to document the heart as a muscle. He described it as pure dark red and pyramidal or spherical, with a liquid film surrounding it to reduce friction
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rREoo TIL of Albert Göring, brother of Hermann Göring. Unlike his brother, Albert was opposed to Nazism and helped many Jews and other persecuted minorities throughout the war. He was shunned in postwar Germany due to his name, and died without any public recognition for his humanitarian efforts.
xVXQ1 TIL that a Norwegian 10 year old once took his 18 month old sister on a trip to his grandparents in his parents car. 10km down the road he ended up in a ditch and when police turned up he claimed to be a dwarf!
d89Dd Til Between 108 BC and 1911 AD, there were no fewer than 1828 recorded famines in China, or once nearly every year in one province or another