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TIL in large 16th Century kitchens a now extinct breed of dog was placed on a giant wheel and used to turn meat. It was viewed as a utensil rather than as a pet.

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Pgwn TIL that a $500, $1,000, $5,000, and $10,000 were once printed in the US and that the $10,000 bill had a U.S. Chief Justice on it not a president.
E7jX TIL Komodo dragons are actually venomous rather than, as long thought, poisoning their victims with the bacteria in their saliva. Turns out, according to one researcher, “that whole bacteria stuff has been a scientific fairy tale”. The venom works slowly and makes the victim too weak to fight.
KONgG TIL of Wille Herold, a private of the German Army in World War II, who posed as a Luftwaffe captain and subsequently organized the mass execution of deserters in a German prison camp in the last days of the war.
GDkJ TIL that back in the day, a lot of professional middle-class blacks always traveled with a chauffeur’s hat. The reason: If they were driving a nice new car through a small southern town, they didn’t want police officers, or any other whites, to know the car belonged to them.
0dyVv TIL Joseph Herring (Mohawk name: Nigeajasha) was among the ten or so native Americans baptized and ordained in the early Mormon church. Nigeajasha eventually had a falling out with LDS leaders. As a result, Wild Bill Hickman scalped Nigeajasha and presented his scalp to Brigham Young.